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| February 25, 2003 |
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Time to bury the Budget
You can have any kind of tax regime, but you cannot make it efficient if it keeps changing year after year, says R Jagannathan.
Reforms as blind man's buff
Reforms are a shapeless word that describes nothing. The closest one can come to their meaning is that they are the policy changes that occurred since 1991, says Ashok V Desai.
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| February 24, 2003 |
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The heavens have not fallen
Fears that economic reforms may have political repercussions are baseless, says A V Rajwade.
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| February 21, 2003 |
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'ICT can spur growth, bridge digital divide'
The two most important functions for ICT are improving the functioning of markets, and helping in production and delivery of educational content, says Dr Atanu Dey.
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| February 19, 2003 |
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Kalam goes off the beaten track
The President's assertion on VAT is the sign of a confident government determined to push through difficult tax reforms, says A K Bhattacharya.
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| February 18, 2003 |
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A tale of two services
It was clever of Vijay Kelkar to produce revised reports of his task forces on direct and indirect taxes. Everyone who jumped and trampled on the interim reports thought that there could be little new in the final ones.
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| February 15, 2003 |
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Civil society: Hidden persuader
Civil society in India has made its impact in many other areas, though not necessarily with agendas that one would endorse.
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| February 12, 2003 |
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Indian economy needs political courage
India does not require money as much as imagination and political courage. We must change laws to enable long-term mortgage markets to take off, says Kaushik Basu.
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| February 05, 2003 |
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Corporate social irresponsibility
Corporates must be judged by how they create wealth. Why expect them to be judged by charities they offer to different stakeholders in society, asks A K Bhattacharya.
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| February 04, 2003 |
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The economy before the Budget
Making overoptimistic projections is not only bad for the finance minister's image, it also leads to pressure on tax officials to collect revenue by fair means or foul, writes Ashok V Desai.
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| February 03, 2003 |
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Selling the sell-off
The government's stand on divestment has given the entire process a stamp of transparency, says Subir Gokarn.
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| January 28, 2003 |
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A Marie Antoinette telecom policy
Competition is a mantra that reduces prices for consumers and increases the quality of the product for the consumer. With the able guidance of Verma and Mahajan, we are neither witnessing lower prices nor improved product quality.
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| January 24, 2003 |
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From elbow grease to pure sleaze
a series of well-researched papers based on extensive cross-country studies just brought out by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) show, corruption is not just some benign occurrence
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| January 18, 2003 |
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Reform for cronies
The slugfests over economic reforms have little to do with politics, it’s all about crony capitalism.
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