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INTERVIEW-PROF. C.N. VAKIL

The Government Is Helping Create A Privileged Class!’ Professor C.N. Vakil, eminent economist, formerly Director, School of Economics and Sociology, University of Bombay, and Director,…

Frozen in the Headlights

Poor Manmohan Singh is caught between the Pros and the Cons. The Pros in the Opposition are telling the prime minister, who has never seemed…

MANILA OUTLINES 1988 BORROWING, BUDGET PLANS

PHILIPPINES’ 1989 BUDGET SET AT 190 BILLION PESOS

Keep Your Expectations Low

In a spirited panel discussion moderated by Business Today editor Chaitanya Kalbag, Yashwant Sinha, MP and former finance minister, M. Damodaran, former SEBI chairman, Satya…

What the Government Needs to Do Now

Despite the crisis, a clear message must be sent to the investor community that India is open for business. There was an initial spurt of…

Fuzzy

Caprice and cowardice were both on display last fortnight. Ten days after a bunch of state election results delivered a hard punchi in the Congress…

IT’S THE ELECTION, STUPID

The economy is whirling around in a populist spiral Pranab Mukherjee is starting to look worryingly like a feckless heir squandering his generous inheritance while…

Home Truths

And now at the end he found himself in his own house, on his own half-lot of land, his own portion of the earth. That…

EXCISE DUTY-MORE SLAPS THAN SOPS

RANAB MUKHERJEE’s first budget, at first glance so redolent of status quo, is peppered with little booby traps. Two paragraphs in his speech have caused…

Marching To Discovery

In the coolness of the early morning there is little traffic on National Highway 3. Outward bound from Nasik, the tar stretches infinitely in mottled…

“WE WERE LEADER BUT WE WERE NOT LEADING”

HUL contributes just 6.3 per cent to Unilever’s global revenues. Where does India stand among emerging markets? Manwani: Emerging markets are not just important; they…