On 15 March IE completed 41 years. The time of launch, the ides of March 1968, was not the best of times; after two successive droughts and a steep devaluation of rupee, the economy, was through a bad patch.
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In 1967 I visited a dozen automobile and auto component units in West Germany and UK...
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Growth rates for India and China have been sharply revised down by IMF/World Bank. India's growth is projected at 6.3 per cent in 2009 and 5.3 per cent in 2010.
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Can Obama turn the economy around? The best hope is that if the banking system begins working normally...
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Gold - ending 100 years of solitude.
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The economic crisis reflects structural imbalance in the global economy and financial risk accumulation. Thus there is no immediate solution to this challenge.
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Budgetary trends of four southern states for 2009-10 reveal the negative impact of economic downturn witnessed by the states in the last one year.
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Reliance Merger: The why and how of capita-lisation strategy of RIL
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State versus market –
post-crisis model: President Obama's ideas of such reshaping for the economy are implicit in both the massive stimulus and the budget in which his reform priorities...
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Congress and BJP are in power on their own in just four of the large states each; with the threat posed by the Third Front, there is the danger of their losing national identity and power further.     more...

Financial inclusion – the effectiveness of 'no frills' accounts
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Moving towards a big rise in NPAs
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There is a New Era in the oil value creation as a result of complex interaction between geo politics and supply/ demand fundamentals superimposed with global warming and peak oil concerns.
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There is nothing short of a skills crisis. Huge investments are needed. Only 30- 35 per cent of engineering graduates are employment-worthy.
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Eastern Europe on the meltdown: Austrian, Swedish and Swiss banks will get hit
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News the newspapers don't want to carry
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ESOPs can have a significant impact on the economic value of the firm and the welfare of the general shareholders, because by definition, they are designed to sell something far less than its market price.
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Insurance: Service tax reduction will impact beneficially
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Tea Trade: For the country as a whole also, 2008 was an impressive year. Production rose to an all-time high level of 981 million kg.
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