The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 17, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
India-China economic ties — Time to develop a new paradigm
The understanding of the ground reality in China remains shallow in India and there is a strong undercurrent of suspicion in Sino-Indian economic relations. There is need for a paradigm shift in Indian thinking vis-à-vis China, says RAMGOPAL AGARWAL, suggesting specific approaches for the government, the business community, and academia. More

COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Deriving the commodity advantage
"Cars to be dearer soon" is an oft-heard refrain in the media. Such decisions are attributed to the rising input costs, mainly raw materials, such as iron, steel, and copper. Given the indigenisation ... More

EDITORIAL
Freeing bank ownership
The ability of Indian banks to garner capital from non-government sources should be enhanced by dilution of state ownership, not by increasing it. More

POLITICS
Politicised administration
The unprecedented violence in the recent polls to local bodies in Tamil Nadu, especially the Chennai Corporation, has once again thrown into sharp relief the increasing politicisation of bureaucracy at all ... More

TAXATION
Taxing trade in cross-border services
Unlike goods, international supply of services cannot be settled at the border. For imported services, the place of supply of services rule is broadly formulated to achieve the destination principle. More

IPR
Of virus, seeds, patents, competition
The contentious area of TRIPs Agreement about patenting of seeds, which relates to food security, and medicines, impacting the health sector, has not been addressed yet. More

INTERVIEW
`Empower panchayats to root out poverty'
To the extent that monitoring and control structures for bureaucrats are weak, power can be devolved from the bureaucrats to panchayats where monitoring is better. More

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