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| October 30, 2004 |
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Three strikes and you are out!
Strike 3 and Bush is out. That is what different markets are signalling. Will they all be wrong? Unlikely -- but let's wait for the American voter.
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| October 29, 2004 |
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Lessons in telecom turnaround
While failures still manage to attract some scrutiny by critics or commentators, successes are rarely analysed.
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| October 28, 2004 |
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Marketing with precision
Marketing effort has to sustain beyond a mere initial acquisition of customers, says Arvind Singhal.
Blocking out peeping Toms
The new generation of mobiles allow idiot-proof digital pictures to be snapped covertly and instantly transmitted, says Devangshu Datta
The macro and the micro
The RBI governor defends his need for reserves. Does the Planning Commission agree?
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| October 27, 2004 |
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The right priority, but wrong focus
Instead of squabbling with the private sector and the foreign investor over what incentives would attract them to commit their resources, asking the public sector to invest in infrastructure is a safer and surer way.
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| October 26, 2004 |
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Money can grow on trees
The paper industry has in the past been given vast areas of forests at a throw-away price.
Who's afraid of protectionism?
Outsource bashing has already tempered somewhat given the modest recovery in employment over the past year.
Forex for infrastructure, anyone?
Why not deploy excess forex reserves to build infrastructure facilities? Obvious, eh? But the obvious sometimes invites weird and interesting schemes.
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| October 25, 2004 |
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The hijack of the century
If a secular front could be created to defeat the BJP, a genuinely Left liberal front that stands for change can also be created to defeat the Communists. This is the real test for the Congress now.
Threat to the 60-year-old twins
The IMF and World Bank face several challenges and threats to their authority.
Will RBI hike interest rates?
RBI Governor Y V Reddy may like to be seen to be doing something in the mid-year review of the monetary policy to manage inflationary expectations.
Making an ass of u and me
On the face of it, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, proposed by Sonia Gandhi's National Advisory Council, looks really neat. But is it really so?
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| October 19, 2004 |
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The World Bank should be shut down
What the proponents of 'civil society' and their acolytes at the World Bank need is a hearing aid, says Deepak Lal.
The mis-information officers
It is time to set up a transparent system of information dissemination, where ministers and bureaucrats work toward increasing the general flow of information.
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| October 18, 2004 |
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Investors don't read surveys!
The wide gap between different surveys, puts a question mark on the reliability of these surveys, says Sunil Jain
Will India be a global pygmy?
'We as a nation have to realise in this changing hyper-competitive global economy that everything has a price.
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| October 15, 2004 |
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The myth of rational man
Blinder and Krueger conducted an exhaustive survey to find out how the American people learn about economic issues and how public opinion there is formed.
The weapons of mass disruption
Information security -- also known as cybersecurity -- is one of the keys to unlocking the full potential of the trade and technology relationship between the US and India, says Kenneth Juster.
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| October 14, 2004 |
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Hospitals for profit
The belief that hospitals can't make money has blocked private investment into the health sector, says Ratan Jalan.
10 opportunities in services sector
The list of opportunities ready for the taking in the food and other service areas is rather long. Amongst the most interesting ones in the food sector are listed here.
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| October 13, 2004 |
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No escaping private sector job quotas
As long as the UPA government is at the Centre, there is no getting away from the idea of job reservation in the private sector, says A K Bhattacharya.
The Centre-states tax conundrum
It needs only a bit of caution on the part of the law-makers and the revenue department. They should only make sure whether the tax is direct or indirect. If it is indirect, they can go ahead with the imposition of levy.
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| October 11, 2004 |
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Gearing up to compete
Dealing with 10 years of inertia and obduracy is a difficult challenge, even for the best amongst us.
Theft is not a bilateral issue
TRAI chief Pradip Baijal has said the reason why it is not investigating BSNL's allegations against Reliance Infocomm is that it has a staff of just 120 persons.
Buyback: Where's the choice?
Forcible buyback of shares by companies is contrary to shareholders' interests.
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| October 05, 2004 |
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IDBI's undeserved bailout
Damodaran's ability to coax his borrowers to pay upand not IDBI's metamorphosis into a bank, is his acid test of leadership, says R Jagannathan.
Policing the common market
We need an independent authority to see that trade and commerce throughout India are indeed free, says Amaresh Bagchi.
That final say in appointments
There is no significant movement towards a transparent system of identifying the right bureaucrat for the right job.
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| October 04, 2004 |
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Using forex reserves
The objective of somehow using up $10 billion may only imply that the import will take place and the projects will remain incomplete
Ministry of finance, hah!
As for ITC, it's equally clear, its ordeal is far from over.
New economic geography
Why businesses are packing up and moving-again, says Matei Mihalca
Bridging the 'viability' gap
Investment in rural infrastructure needs top-down financing and bottom-up planning, says Jyotsna Bapat
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