McKinsey estimates the dollar needs to fall 30 per cent for the US current account to balance in five years.


A V Rajwade: The dollar`s fall

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It's time for some honourable FII to argue for a transparent regulation of foreign portfolio inflows. But Godot might arrive sooner.


Surjit S Bhalla: Transparency and responsible regulation

Access to Room 13 of Parliament House is never a problem for reporters. But on August 30, the front doors of Room 13 were shut throughout the day. Mukherjee, alongwith other party managers like Ahmed

UPA`s busiest minister

The way things are snowballing, the privatisation of Delhi airport could soon become the ideal case study of how not to structure/run PPP initiatives. The privatisation process received flak two years

Sunil Jain: Bumps in the PPP runway

There is an ongoing battle between the CFA Institute in the US and the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) as to the right to use the letters CFA and words Chartered

Ashok Jha: A question of credibility

A farmer calls from a distant village in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. One can hear it sitting inside the office of One World South Asia in New Delhi. It is trapped in the massive data-base

Telcos extend helpline to farmers

The idea behind a green building is simple  energy conservation, creation and environment protection.


Greenscrapers are here

P>The government&#39;s inflation management is being widely condemned and most consider it natural that the central bank should tighten money further since inflation shows no sign of abetting.

Subir Roy: Orthodoxy rules the day

<P>The state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL)  one of the three retailers of subsidised petroleum products in the country  has seen its daily under-realisation slide to Rs 120 crore per day from Rs 150 crore per day with the recent hike in prices.

`HPCL`s under-recoveries reduced significantly`

P>Shyam Ponappa discusses what ails wheat and rice farming, and how to fix production and distribution.

Shyam Ponappa: Grain Shortages & Fallow Land

P>It was John Maynard Keynes who said, "practical men, who believe themselves to be quite free from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

M Govinda Rao: Development-Oriented Tax Policy for India

P>Officers constitute less than 5% of the defence services, but the military's objections to the 6th Pay Commission recommendations appear to centre largely on the concerns of officers, particularly issues of status parity with their IAS counterparts.

Ajai Shukla: A CRPF manned by soldiers

<P>The two issues that remain are whether Dow inherited Union Carbide&#39;s liabilities and why the government never cleaned up Bhopal after settling with Carbide 
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Should Dow be allowed to do business in India?

P>For several years now, Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has fought a pitched battle with the country&#39;s pharmaceuticals industry, accusing it of price gouging.

Sunil Jain: Paswan gets a bloody nose

P>There is little to suggest inflation levels will come down since you hardly see the same levels of seasonality in prices that were there earlier.

A Seshan: Inflation unlikely to fall

P>That panic has set in among policy makers is suggestive of the worst being over in global inflation.

Surjit S Bhalla: World inflation - The worst over?

&nbsp;Inflation continues to soar. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the week ended May 3 registered a staggering 7.83 per cent increase over the corresponding week of last year, raising questions about the government&#39;s repeated assertions that the measures taken in the past few weeks are beginning to pay off.

Editorial: Faulty gauge?

P>The Economic Survey 2007-08 has some interesting insights for infrastructure aficionados.

Vinayak Chatterjee: What the Eco-Survey tells us

<P>The question boils down to whether the existing anti-terrorism laws have helped reduce terrorist activity and whether they&#39;re prone to systematic abuse.

Do we need to bring back laws like POTA?

P>An FDI policy that links the scale of investments to the level of sourcing for exports may not be a bad idea.

Arvind Singhal: Liberating the retail sector

&nbsp;Raju's (name changed) father is behind bars for a host of crimes. Two of Raju's friends, too, have not met their fathers in a long time because the men have been convicted for several illegal activities.

Schooling them for the world

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