The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Minimalist Ministerial
THE BIGGEST SUCCESS of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial is that it has been able to produce a unanimous Declaration which reflects, apart from anything else, a strong desire among all members of the World Trade Organisation not to sacrifice the Doha ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Special Economic Zones — An idea whose time has lapsed
No more the woolly-headed aims of value addition, employment generation and all such remnants of the control regime. Now, the sole purpose of the SEZs is to export goods and services and earn foreign exchange, says Ashok Upadhyay. More

MANAGEMENT

Root cause of talent poaching
OFTEN, we come across hiring managers complaining about talent poaching by their competition. An easy hire would be to make a +10 per cent offer to the people and woo them to your side. The same holds good for your ... More

STOCK MARKETS

New features of the stock market surge
With the BSE Sensex having settled above the 9000 mark, evidence of an unprecedented bull run on India's stock market is now incontrovertible. But similar trends in the past have been followed by an unwinding process triggered by news of market manip ulation or fraud. This time around, however, both the Government and the regulator, after initially expressing caution, appear sanguine. C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine whether there still is need for caution. More

WTO

Hong Kong Ministerial — Changing the terms of engagement
While the final declaration does not reveal it, at Hong Kong, the farmers and the weavers were, as before, pitted against the merchants, only this time, they won. There will be future battles on textiles, services, investments and possibly even on ag riculture, but the war has all but been won. Within the green rooms at Hong Kong, the work begun on the streets in Seattle has been completed. The norms of engagement on trade issues have changed. More

GATS: Dealing with brain-drain
DEVELOPING countries are particularly unhappy with the level of Mode-4 commitments of the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS). They believe that there is greater commitment under Mode-3 compared to Mode-4. ... More

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