OPINION
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
For whom is the research anyway?
On one side there is an imposing network of laboratories and research establishments with panoply of academic achievement and recognition. On the other, mass suicides of farmers are happening that signals gross system failure of which the grand empir e of agricultural institutions cannot be entirely innocent. This is the bane of research in the socialist world where there was no incentive to be inventive.
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AWARDS & HONOURS
Ig-Nobel record
LEAVING aside the Peace prize, as per the information available up to 2000, 631 Nobel prizes have been awarded, of which the US (242) has been the largest recipient with one prize for a million population, followed by ...
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EDITORIAL
Gimmicks for foreign funds
IT HAS BEEN customary for chief ministers and finance ministers at the Centre, on assuming office, to make a strong pitch with foreign investors through `road-shows'. Viewed thus, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has followed the script, ...
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ECONOMY
Why dharmanomics must reign
IT HAS been argued that the spread of globalisation signals the end of history. Western liberal democracy shall spread across the earth resulting in the demise of mankind's ideological evolution. All that is to be done ...
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POLITICS
Soul-searching needed on Bank impact
While the controversy over roping in foreign expertise for the mid-term Plan review has been laid to rest, it has thrown up certain questions, such as: "Who is in the driver's seat and who sets the national priorities?" It is on this that there are g nawing doubts among the Left parties. The economic advisers would do well to assuage the Left's fears by drawing instances from the Chinese experience with aid agencies and its record growth despite such association.
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PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS
PSBs must cash in on product innovation
What PSBs usually call product development is basically re-positioning, re-packaging or re-classifying existing products. Real breakthroughs can come only with product innovation.
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BOOKS
Thought @ the speed of government
Vividly, and anecdotally, long-time journalist and recently-turned politician, Mr Arun Shourie, captures the sloth in government in his 18th book. As a Minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet, he made most of his privileged access to chronicle the pace of g overnance, and to find out why the system is able to fend off attempts to change it. A rewarding read for those who believe in reform of government, says K. Venugopal.
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LETTERS
Poverty trap
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