The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 03, 2004

EDITORIAL
A milestone accord
MUCH IS BEING made of the accord reached by World Trade Organisation members at Geneva on the "framework" negotiations, with the progress being described as "significant" for the completion of the Doha Round. It is easy to agree with this view if ... More

ENVIRONMENT
Bio-safety protocol and international regulation — The jurisdictional imperatives
GIVEN that there is a degree of environmental uncertainly associated with the products of biotechnology along with the possibility of negative externalities arising from trans-boundary movement of those products, the ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Why do the rich not take Unctad seriously?
EVER since the World Trade Organisation came into being in 1995, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has been under attack from the rich countries for doing excellent work for the developing ... More

POLITICS
Recall provision — People's leash, short and tight
It will be a folly for the political class to assume that its sovereign masters, the people, will put up indefinitely with oppression and hardship. A safety valve is needed, perhaps in the form of the right of recall of elected representatives, s ays B. S. Raghavan. More

BANKING
Moratorium: A sanatorium for angry depositors?
EVERYTHING was smooth in our lives, except for noisy scenes in Parliament and market ups and downs, with an added dose of entertainment in the form of vanishing Ministers and astonishing wills, till the GTB bombshell ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Behavioural science and firm transparency
While working towards promoting transparency and openness, a look at some problems and the possible checks and balances that need to be given special care. More

NATURAL CALAMITIES
`Insuring' against nature's fury
AS AUDIENCES worldwide ponder the dramatic scenes in The Day After Tomorrow, Hollywood's much-talked-about climate change disaster movie, millions of other people in the developing world have been suffering the ... More

LETTERS

Connectivity theory

GM cotton

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