The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Beyond benchmarking
A RECENT ADVERTISEMENT claiming exceptional water-saving properties of a popular detergent brings into focus the need to look at locally relevant, Third World innovation with new eyes. While poorer countries have traditionally borrowed systems, ... More

AIRLINES

Of fanciful flying machines
THE stiff competition between Boeing Company of the US and Airbus Industrie of Europe has been a long story of neck-to-neck racing, with both seeking supremacy in the airplane manufacturing industry. The battle of ... More

ECONOMY

UN ESCAP Survey — Reaffirms resilience of regional economies
While assessing the impact of the tsunami and the soaring oil prices on the economies of the Asia-Pacific region, the UN ESCAP Survey contends that the impressive economic performance under conditions of generally low inflation reaffirms the resilien ce of the regional economies. Yet serious challenges do linger, casting a shadow over prospects of a better phase ahead. More

POWER

India's energy security dilemma
Fluctuating global fuel prices slow down the rate of economic growth, propel inflation and reduce economic output by acting as a tax on consumption. India has to take proactive steps to bridge the increasing energy demand-supply gap if a high rate of growth is to be sustained. Can the country, which has been a net oil importer for over 50 years, handle such recurrent and high fuel price flare-ups, wonders Ashish Vachhani. More

TEXTILES

Chinese bogeyman in American clothing
Barely four months after the end of quotas under the Multi-Fibre Agreement, winds of protectionism are sweeping through the US and Europe. Pointing at China once more, governments are threatening to clamp down on imports on grounds of market disrupti on. C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine recent trends in the US textile trade to unravel the source of conflict. More

EDUCATION

Why B-schools in India need the IIMs
IT IS that time of the year when management institutes across the country will be gearing up to participate in B-school surveys conducted by business magazines and the All India Management Association. These surveys ... More

LETTERS

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VIPs and relief work

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