The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 27, 2007

NEW FUND OFFER
Better ‘closed’
The market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) is rightly concerned about the mushrooming New Fund Offers (NFOs) by mutual fund houses in India which have been receiving enthusiastic response from small investors harbouring ... More

EDITORIAL
The choke eases even more
The RBI has shown itself willing to let the growing forex reserves be put to the best use by Indian residents themselves, be they individuals or corporate bodies More

ENVIRONMENT
Climate talks: Kyoto to Bali
Against the background of the recent UN meet on climate change, N. R. KRISHNAN points out that it is time the developed world accepted the hard reality that developing countries, including China and India, may not be able to accept any cuts in their fossil fuel consumption and, hence, in GHG emissions, as energy is the lifeline of their economic growth. More

MORTGAGE
The wages of financial innovation
The current sub-prime triggered financial crisis is quite different from what the world had witnessed in the past. It is not one-dimensional or confined to a specific sector. It has intertwined banks with an array of other institutions. More

INTERVIEW
Three signs of imminent fall
Only one in four acquisitions succeed in creating shareholder value, says Mr Chris Zook, author of Unstoppable (Harvard Business School Press, May 2007), citing a seven-year study conducted by Bain & Company, a global business and strategy ... More

BOOKS
To measure poverty, you may have to go chak
The Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agriculture Movement) in Bangladesh experiments with an alternative to micro-credit. “Very poor female-headed households are given an animal to raise until it has a calf. The woman can use the milk, either for ... More

LETTERS

Growth sans equity

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Better ‘closed’

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Forex turnover rises to $34 b

Dhoni first class all the way

‘HNIs prefer equity, commercial realty’

Looking back
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