The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 09, 2003

High on FII
BY FUNNELLING OVER $4 billion into the Indian markets this year, foreign institutional investors have sent strong signals about their positive perception of the Indian economy. It is true this flow has come when the rupee has appreciated by ... More

ECONOMY

Making services work for poor
Broad improvements in human welfare will not happen till poor people receive wider access to affordable services in health, education, water, sanitation and electricity, warns WDR 2004. Rightly concluding that no one size fits all, it describes eight , and wants the delivery mechanism tailored to the country's circumstances. S. D. Naik scans the report. More

ACCOUNTANCY

Books and papers redefined
S. Kannan on the company law provisions relating to accounts and audit on the anvil More

A spammer in the works
EVERYBODY is a king in a democracy, proclaims a popular saying. And Raja is too common a name, either as a standalone or as a suffix. The latest, however, to join the band of Rajas is Pulli Raja and nobody seems to know ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

Regional Trade Agreements — The right way to go for India
BY SIGNING the Free Trade Agreement with Thailand, and announcing that it is working on another one with Singapore, India has indicated to the world that it has at last abandoned its anti-bilateralism, anti-regionalism ... More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Reality check on corporate governance
CORPORATE governance seems to have caught the imagination of the corporate world. Aided by the plethora of reports, notifications and circulars by various regulatory bodies. It may be the latest corporate fad, yet, ... More

LETTERS

Tax burden

Visa issues

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