The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Sowing credit
SEVERAL CHALLENGES CONTINUE to stymie the farm sector, not the least of which is the flow of institutional credit and its effective delivery. Apart from contributing to production and productivity improvement by enabling use of optimum doses of ... More

ECONOMY

Economic reforms, the RBI's assessment
In its latest annual Currency and Finance Report, the RBI has assessed the experience thus far with neo-liberal reforms in India. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh consider the evidence and analys is of real economic growth trends as described in the report. More

Gulf War II: India may not take a direct hit
THE reverberations of Gulf War II are sure to be felt on the Indian economy sooner than later. While the war does have the potential to bring about far-reaching structural changes in the world economy (like the emergence of newer trading blocs) ... More

FERTILISERS

Fertiliser subsidy imbroglio: Decontrol the only way out
In keeping with the spirit of economic reforms the Government should remove all controls on fertilisers, including price control, and arrange to directly reach the subsidy to such farmers who really need protection. Such a proactive step will remove the uncertainty that dogs the fertiliser sector and pave the way for its restructuring and switchover to more efficient feedstock, say Viren Kaushik and Uttam Gupta. More

WATER

A water purifier and the war against Iraq
RECENTLY, while buying a water purifier of a particular company, we had to choose between one with ultra-violet (UV) rays and another with a special filter where the cost of the former was a little higher than that of the latter. The ... More

LETTERS

Is VAT dead?

Poverty eradication

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