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February 26, 2007

Privatisation: How much sacrifice should the poor make?
Non-availability of minimum facilities is the sacrifice the rural poor are being forced to make in pursuit of the Left's ideology.

Has the fuel run out of India's exports?
Buoyant export demand has been one of drivers of the strong GDP growth in the last three years. Exports have chalked up an impressive growth rate of higher than 21 per cent for the last four years (since 2002-03).

February 24, 2007

Here's some food for thought
Food security in India, something that we had come to take for granted, is under serious threat

I'd be lost without my GPS
Being lost in a strange town on the way to a meeting is not fun.

Why Mumbai can't be a financial hub
If an Indian financial firm is to make it big globally, it will have to hope that the Indian economy continues to do well

Devising a New Sensex
A perception that India has a gigantic problem has suddenly been turned into a perception that India faces a gigantic opportunity

February 17, 2007

Why the Yamuna's just a dirty drain
Pollution levels in the once-majestic river have gone up dramatically despite the capital spending around Rs 2,000 crore on sewage treatment plants and other facilities.

February 16, 2007

Are terrorists manipulating Indian stock markets?
Did the NSA mean the terrorists had used their advance knowledge of planned terrorist strikes in India to make money from the stock market?

February 14, 2007

Automated innovation, next BIG thing
Automation will eventually transform a little known invention into a process, the opportunity only lies in capturing the opportunity first and not opposing to this change.

February 13, 2007

A Corus line: Did Tata do the right thing?
considers the lessons from Tata Steel's acquisition of Corus.

February 12, 2007

Bihar CM on how to tackle poverty
There should be transparent national standards and parameters to decide who the poor are

February 10, 2007

Of slogans and aam aadmi
If the state were to move from being a generally inefficient service provider to an agent for fiscal transfers, it would be helping the common man much more with much less.

Will Delhi's miseries now end?
How will the new Master Plan help in accommodating this rising tide of new arrivals or rehabilitate residents who feared eviction and closure of trades during the sealing drives?

Is inflation a phenomenon of nature?
It may begin that way with, say, supply shortages in farm products due to adverse weather, but if monetary policy is eased to accomodate this, the effects become permanent.

February 09, 2007

How free should the flow of capital be?
No one seems to be able to agree on what the correct degree of capital mobility in developing countries is.

Rescuing failed entrepreneurs
Sadly, at conferences on entrepreneurship and venture capital, it's not low-tech units and entrepreneurs whom people have in mind.

February 08, 2007

How to tackle inflation
One of the great strengths of India is that the political system just does not accept high inflation.

Nationalism has no place in business
Like corporations all round the world and of all nationalities, Indian businesses understand the urgent need to acquire global scale and efficiencies to succeed.

'Indian IT has grown 300 times since 1991'
India must now focus on leadership, innovation, says Nasscom chairman .

Do private equity firms back winners?
A third of firms said they wouldn't have existed had it not been for PE and over 62 per cent said they'd have grown slower.

A primer on cutting tax exemptions
Lowering of peak duty rates is the best time to remove exemptions since this cushions the impact on users.

Who's afraid of number portability?
TRAI had recommended that MNP be brought in from April this year but the government or DoT or Maran has turned it down

February 07, 2007

India is at the edge of a precipice
India is at the edge of a precipice. It can now take off and soar, going ever higher, it can stay where it is; or it can suddenly begin to fall. Giving it wings and confidence is the IT-BPO sector, says Nasscom president .

The key to great quality management
Responsibility can be written down as a job description -- accountability is about commitment.

February 06, 2007

Expect only tax reforms this Budget
A new Outcome Budget will now combine the spending, the capacity created and, most important, the programme's impact.

Poor need less safety norms?
What is the basis of the belief that RBI, which has performed its regulatory task extremely well since independence, cannot regulate microfinance organisations, while NABARD can do so?

The do's and don'ts for Budget 2007-08
We can expect some significant reform initiatives in the direct and indirect tax systems.

Are firms listening to their CFOs?
Finance divisions and CFOs should also "feed" information and insights into the rest of the organisation

How to soften the capital gains tax blow
A capital gain is classified as short-term or long-term depending on how long you have held the asset.

Global events that could hit economy
There are several major imponderables in the world economy, which could lead to financial instability.

How Reliance has changed India's petro retail sector
Employing the best in business and emphasis on training Reliance petroleum's downstream business is stewarded by the very best in business.

February 05, 2007

Will Delhi's new master plan stand?
On February 16, 2006, the Supreme Court supported the residents and ordered sealing of shops/offices located in residential areas, to start from March 29.

Tax ombudsman: A positive start
Our regulation gives wide powers to the tax authorities, particularly at the assessment stage. The entire process is driven by 'doubt and suspicion' rather than 'trust and faith.'

IT firms' plan to beat hotels
Am sure our smart analysts will soon start pricing in hotel valuations into IT stocks, among so many other things

Plans afoot to revise VAT, service tax
With the Budget now at the doorstep, suggestions are flying about revising the threshold both in VAT and service tax.

Racism plagues global labour markets
Unlike trade protection, the basic premise of labour market protection is racial discrimination.

Chidambaram on India's biggest challenges
The most formidable challenge is in the agriculture sector.

Of Guru and India's family businesses
investment bankers and family wealth managers will have more and more to celebrate in time to come

February 03, 2007

Middle class, not the rich tops tax evasion list
Sleepwalking ideology should not blind one to the reality - tax evasion is the privilege of the 'missing middle' and not the rich

The other side of global success
Recent global successes must not blind us to the reality of our endemic poverty.

How India can be a global leader
If Indian companies do not understand the roots of India's culture and genius, they will not succeed

February 01, 2007

Marketing to the affluent
What can international luxury goods and services marketers do to stimulate desire and capture the now rapidly increasing spending potential of the very affluent in India?

SEZ policy: Land acquisition a grey area
The Act is criticised as an imperial legislation, lacking ameliorative measures for the deprived, with obsolete benchmarks for determining compensation.