The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 26, 2007

BUDGET
Balancing growth and demand pressures
With booming revenues and high GDP growth, the Finance Minister may be able to present a Budget showing a better fiscal deficit-to-GDP ratio than ever before. But that may be a Pyrrhic victory if the quality of infrastructure and other facilities rem ains appalling. The emphasis must shift from fiscal deficit reduction to the quality, both of expenditure and fiscal deficit, argues S. VENKITARAMANAN. More

Will Budget lay the road to prosperity?
Sensible policy directives, if not financial incentives, in the Budget can be crucial for Rural India. More

BUDGET EXPECTATIONS
Investment climate looks positive
Over the years,, more and more institutional investors have started believing that the Budget as a trigger for the market is becoming less and less important. This is in sharp contrast to what the situation was when I was a management student; ... More

ECONOMY
Is inflation a monetary phenomenon?
The most basic monetarist conviction is that the cause of persistent inflation is excess money creation. According to monetarists aggregate demand inflation can be caused by rapid increase in the supply of credit money. And it is in this sense that i nflation is termed as a totally monetary phenomenon. More

Missing the wood for the trees
In the backdrop of the double-digit growth in industry, the country must introspect how it plans to pull agrisulture out of the quagmire it has sunk into, given that the bulk of the country's population depends on the farm sector. More

SOCIAL WELFARE
How Europe cares for the disabled
Over three years ago, I had the opportunity of making my way to London's Curzon Soho for the debut screening of Kroko, a powerful German film featuring real-life disabled actors and teenage tearaways. The film is about a teenage girl who ... More

Looking after the advanced in years
The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, approved by the Central Cabinet on February 22, for introduction in the current session of Parliament, is, in fact, a sad acknowledgement of the ... More

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Persistent poverty

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