No time soon
An underlying rationale of the "agro-centric" Exim policy announced Saturday is allegedly that it would result in tilting the terms of trade (ToT) in favour of agriculture.

Go after the big fish
In this age of scams and corruption, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has done the right thing by arresting a serving officer who has allegedly misused his post for personal gain.

A rose by any other name...
The commerce minister will have done his job when there is no more need for annual exim policy statements unknown in countries with open trading environments.

Fragile regulators, inefficient markets
It does not require earthshaking analytical insight to come to the conclusion that the Indian financial sector and capital markets have a four-year cycle of cataclysms.

The New Economy is old hat
For the clutch of you who have access to the March 2001 issue of the Harvard Business Review, don't waste time on this column (do come back next fortnight though).