The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 03, 2007

EDITORIAL
Tuning up with Europe
The aim should be to forge a ‘controlled’ India-EU trade and investment accord, and chalk out new areas with promising prospects. More

ECONOMY
Towards a ‘weightless’ world
The world today is characterised by intangible forms of power, bound up in bundles of information and knowledge. The physical products, which were hitherto a measure of wealth, are dematerialising. More

US credit squeeze and India
It is obvious that Indian policymakers can do little about containing the magnitude of the liquidity squeeze that has been the by-product of the sub-prime saga in the US. The RBI will have to factor in this reduced availability of external credit in its plans, if any, to tighten the credit delivery system, says S. VENKITARAMANAN. More

FOREIGN TRADE
After Friendship Year, what?
The current year of 2007, declared as the India-Japan Friendship Year, is coming to a close. Such declarations have meaning only when they lead to putting in place concrete, tangible frameworks of action to get the most out of the synergy and ... More

EDUCATION
Taking a leaf out of Europe’s education book
The EU has educational objectives for 2010 designed to provide everyone with the basic essentials for a knowledge-based society. In this context, India will need to fine-tune policies to attract private sector participation and foreign direct investm ent in the education sector. More

HUMAN RESOURCES
In search of the flexible employer
Flexibility will be the defining dimension for being seen as a preferred employer in the coming years. Unfortunately, while more and more organisations are spending a lot of time and money to unravel the mystery of ‘engagement’, few are w illing to recognise flexibility as a critical driver of this engagement. More

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