OPINION
EDITORIAL
Beware the palm oil cartel
A RECENT REPORT that the world's top three rubber producers — Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand — plan to set up a joint venture to strengthen cooperation in the palm oil industry must make India's policy-makers sit up. A consortium of ...
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AGRICULTURE
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001 — Just leave the seed alone
THE year 2001 and India gets a plant varieties protection legislation (The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001; Act 53 of 2001) heralding agriculture of the 21st century: A `brand' new age, where ...
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ECONOMY
IMF on State finances
THE research and analysis wing of the IMF has of late begun to turn its attention to fiscal and monetary issues pertaining to India. When the consultants are engaged by the Fund to prepare working papers, they usually ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
SAFTA can do a NAFTA
FREE trade agreements (FTAs) are becoming common and India is not lagging behind either. Once a protagonist of protectionism and a staunch supporter of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), India is now looking at FTAs, ...
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FOREX
RBI's dilemma on sterilising forex inflows
For the purpose of sterilisation of the inflowing funds through Open Market Operations, the RBI has had, till recently, adequate amount of government securities to sell. If the present trend of the inflows continues and the central bank carries on wi th sterilisation, it will run out of stocks of securities in a few months, says A. Seshan.
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PETROLEUM
PDS supply of kerosene — A burning issue
THE 55th round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO — June-July 2000) reported that around 51 per cent rural households, corresponding to 70-80 million families, burn kerosene in lanterns for light. ...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Fractal evolution and the digital age
THE Digital Age is upon us. Witness the explosion of technologies and devices, from the more common-place such as intranets and the Internet, ATMs, and real-time navigation systems that provide traffic information and ...
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