The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 15, 2003

Closing the ECB window?
THE GOVERNMENT HAS effectively shut the door on corporates raising money abroad through external commercial borrowings. It proposes to impose conditions that would make a large segment of the corporate sector ineligible to access the overseas ... More

TAXATION

Give a good look at guarantees
Mohan R. Lavi on the reasonableness of treating deposit for guarantee as `payment' More

A search for stability
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the confusion that prevails in the computation of undisclosed income More

There are bunkers for business
It is the taxpaying employee who is always discriminated against, says S. Murlidharan More

Devil in the `due date'
R. Anand on the muddle raked up by the extension of `due date' More

Inputs for an annual ritual
T. N. Pandey offers a few suggestions for the forthcoming Budget exercise More

ECONOMICS

Define `good life' before economics helps you get there
NEWSPAPER and magazines can make a story of almost anything — be it a gaffe or a disaster, an event or a non-event. Thus, when a former correspondent of The Economist sits down to study `a boring, ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Why most e-government projects fail
The simplistic assumption that e-governance is all about technology, and not reform, is one of the main reasons why many an e-government project fails. Only countries strong in governance and committed to reform can hope to succeed in their e-governm ent efforts, says K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty More

RETAILING

Sourcing trouble in the retail sector?
FOR the reform-weary National Democratic Alliance (NDA) facing the elections in four States, even a remote suggestion that the time is ripe for allowing in retailing giants is anathema. One wonders why the Ministry of ... More

BRANDS

India as a global brand
THE "India as a global brand" concept has been hogging the headlines in recent days. In fact, the idea has been strenuously promoted by important industrialists who are in the forefront of Indian business today. ... More

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