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   EDITORIALS
Friday, December 07, 2001 
Reconstructing Afghanistan
  Indian companies and the government have been slow to utilise business opportunities abroad, especially those thrown up by economies in transition.
India’s autobahns
  It is remarkably good news if 13,000 kms of six-lane and four-lane national highways are added by 2007. By the way, India added 13,000 kms during the 50 years since Independence.
   
Economy and the Nation
  The India Summit of the World Economic Forum and the CII and the AGM of the FICCI, provided ample opportunity for the National Democratic Alliance-led government to articulate its vision on economic policy half way through its term in office.
RANDOM ACCESS: Ajit Ranade
Understanding the Standing Committee
  We were utterly dismayed when your committee chose to reject all the numerical targets and the time-table for reducing the fiscal deficit, outlined in the draft text of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill.
OFF THE CUFF: S R Kasbekar
Roots are dark and deep
  Finance minister Yashwant Sinha at the recent India Economic Summit talked of stepping up growth rate of the Indian economy to seven per cent “to help 200 million poor escape poverty”. Nobody need quibble with the lofty aim.

   ANALYSIS
SPOTLIGHT: Harjeet Ahluwalia
Making tourism go rural — and bankable
  A critical area that India has ignored all these years, and continues to do so, is integration of infrastructure development with services — the sunrise sector on which growth hopes are pinned worldwide.
STATES: Joseph Vackayil
Economic crisis may create new hurdles for Jayalalithaa
  It was Navaratri and Deepavali together on December 4 for AIADMK supremo and former Tamil Nadu chief minister, J Jayalalithaa, and her close aides.
ECO-WATCH: China says 2002 exports vital to 7 pct GDP growth
  China said on Thursday, its exports faced worse prospects than during the Asian economic crisis and that it needed to maintain measurable exports growth to help attain seven percent economic growth in 2002.
Q&A: S S H REHMAN
‘ITC Hotels’ schemes for ex-servicemen have been mutually beneficial’
  S S H Rehman, MD, ITC Hotels Ltd, who is also from the Armed Forces (former Major with The Mahar Regiment), speaks to Huma Siddiqui about the various schemes under the banner of WelcomJawan for rehabilitation of ex-servicemen and their families.
 
   
 
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