Insurance needs automation push The insurance industry continues at a very low level of automation even after it has been denationalised, opened to foreign… 20 years ago
Time to promote virtual water measures The draft report titled India?s Water Economy from the World Bank is indeed timely, as it might draw attention from… 20 years ago
Economic apartheid is just as mindless Airports should not be privatised, said a poster put out by the trade unions there during their day?s strike earlier… 20 years ago
SRK and a storm in the bath tub Much has been written and said about the current Lux commercial. The media hype must have HLL and its agency… 20 years ago
Where?s the Indian brandwagon? Even as we celebrate the advent of the Indian corporation on the global horizon, thanks to the aggressive acquisitions by… 20 years ago
Time to revisit the equity-efficiency debate The recently published World Development Report 2006 revisits some of the concerns of development. Following closely on the heels of… 20 years ago
Making manufacturing more competitive The National Manufacturing Comp-etitiveness Council (NMCC), set up by the Prime Minister, has just come up with a draft national… 20 years ago
Why the Sensex needs a deep correction The Sensex has stumbled in its sprint towards the 9,000 mark, as it corrected in line with global market trends.… 20 years ago
Unusual arrangements for global growth This week we had the IMF economics department arrange a presentation by Raghuram Rajan in Singapore on their ?Global economic… 20 years ago
India?s descent into chaos and anarchy Why does the Congress always work against those national functionaries who perform, deliver and are seen to be successful in… 20 years ago
On rebalancing the world economy Earlier this year, Benjamin Bernanke, then a member of the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and now the head… 20 years ago
Pay attention to market rumours Ultimately, the market regulator needed less than a week of hard work to bring some sanity to the brazenly manipulated… 20 years ago
What drives the exuberance in equity? Over the past fortnight, there has been much gyration in our stock markets and coincidental raids by tax men on… 20 years ago
No key in sight for Turkey?s EU bid If there is a country even more buffeted than India by contradictory geopolitical pulls and pressures in a post-9/11 and… 20 years ago
Has the ratings party run its course? Standard & Poor?s has recently announced that it is getting out of the business of rating on corporate governance in… 20 years ago
For the PM: going beyond good intentions Manmohan Singh respects authority and he is also its repository. But is certainly not authoritarian. Governance reforms has been his… 20 years ago
Miles ahead: impressions of a China visit A visit to China is always an experience. My second visit, it was far more rewarding than the first one,… 20 years ago
In search of good governance It has been an eventful fortnight, a range of issues attracting international attention. The survey published by the International Finance… 20 years ago
