Wednesday
Feb 28 2001
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What consensus?
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IT has frequently been said, by this newspaper as well as others, that we now have a political consensus on economic reform.
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Reduce the spread
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AMONG the many worrying things revealed by the Economic Survey for 2000-01 is the fact that tax reforms have not only been slow-paced, but in some cases have even regressed of late.
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Et Tu, Congress!
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THE GOVERNMENT'S decision not to proceed further with the Balco disinvestment till there is a debate in Parliament is a setback. But not necessarily a fatal one, if it is concluded quickly.
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Fertiliser subsidy
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 WE SPEND more than 0.7 per cent of India’s GDP on fertiliser subsidies. This is almost twice the entire amount we spend on higher education.
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Don’t hold your breath, Sinha’s a Muggle
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 WHO would have expected the Economic Survey, hammered out deep in the dungeons of North Block by bureaucratic gnomes, to come out and tell it like it is? Well, it has: the Survey for 2000-01 actually says that the economy is in trouble and unless the government gets moving you’ve had it.
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`We’ve evolved a rating framework for India’
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 PRANAB Kumar Choudhury, managing director, ICRA has been at the helm of this leading Indian rating organisation since its inception.
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The changing face of industry lobbying
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IN THE days of industrial and import licensing, the bureaucrat and the politician rode rough shod over industry.
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To many cooks spoil the broth
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THE BEST known theory of political co-operation is William Riker’s thesis that a coalition will consist of a bare majority because anything more will dilute the rewards of office among an unnecessarily large number of individuals....
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A ruse by any other name
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SHRI Sudarshan, Sar-Sanghchalak, RSS, has said that Islam in India should Indianise itself even as Christianity has been Anglicised in England and Russianised (sic) in Russia.
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