OPINION
AWARDS & HONOURS
`Nobel' heroes of the dismal science
IT IS Nobel season. The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel or, in short, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for 2004 will be announced on October 11. It was instituted by the central ...
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EDITORIAL
Visa issues
THE FILLING UP of the annual quota of 65,000 H1B visas on the opening day is a reflection of the outsourcing momentum the Indian software companies have seen over the past six months. This was only to be expected as the pipeline of applications ...
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MANAGEMENT
Micromanagement
MANAGEMENT literature frowns on micromanagement. This is a trait routinely attributed to an unpopular or unsuccessful CEO. Instead of leading, motivating, empowering, delegating and facilitating, a micromanager is ...
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WTO
Transatlantic dogfight on aircraft subsidies
THE 2003 Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) floundered in the face of the developed countries' stubborn refusal to prune their massive agricultural subsidies that distort the global grain market. ...
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Quota — an idea whose time has come
QUOTA is "an idea whose time has come", according to Dr Manmohan Singh, though the private sector may never come to terms with ``job reservation for the weaker sections'', law or no law. On the job front again, skilled ...
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OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Rethinking the US' offshoring conundrum
As technology companies stake out market positions in the fast-growing economies of China and India, it makes perfect sense for them to simultaneously use the highly skilled low-cost labour available in those countries to develop some of the products .
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SECURITY
New issues in non-proliferation: Self-reliance, the only answer
American non-proliferation policies are arbitrary. Pakistan and China have been found to have transferred enrichment technology and equipment and weapons designs to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Yet, Washington imposes sanctions on two Indian nuclear scientists, for their alleged transfer of unconventional weapons and missile technology to Iran. While one has never visited Iran and the other has, under the IAEA aegis. G. Parthasarathy laments the action against India, which has scrupulousl y avoided transfer of nuclear weapons and missiles knowhow.
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