Sugar trade must be regulated The Times Of India Make no mistake, sugar, like salt, is an essential ingredient of every person's diet. Like salt, sugar must be easily available in the market and at affordable prices. But unlike salt, sugar production involves a more cumbersome process and is open to the influence of numerous factors like weather, ...
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again Asia Times | By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled a plan to turn it into an international tourist resort. | More than 100 developers, including publicly listed China Van...
GSIS’ assumed burden The Daily Tribune | Man at the Market | 02/09/2010 | Factually, contributions deducted from the monthly pay of every government employee, official or rank and file alike, are not enough to cover for all the benefits due them individually upon reaching retirement age, including their monthly pension. | Enabling the Go...
Agile, smaller enterprises are leading a revival in the industry The Independent | The tiny improvement in Britain's gross domestic product in the final quarter of last year may be raising fears about the strength of |the economy in general, but manufacturing appears to be on a roll. Figures just released by the Chartered Institu...
Forget cuts and keep spending, Brown told The Independent | One of the world's leading economists has urged Gordon Brown to reject "fiscal fetishism", defy the markets and maintain, or even extend, the fiscal stimulus of the British economy. | Joseph Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 a...
A universal paradox: can market economy become inclusive? The Hindu | V. Anil Kumar | Are we buying the catch phrase, inclusiveness, with critical attention? | Of late there has been increased emphasis on inclusiveness in economy, society and polity. The Planning Commission has declared that the goal of the present g...
Nissan-Renault head Carlos Ghosn's zero emission goal BBC News | In an open and candid interview for BBC World Service's The Interview programme, he has outlined how he will be pinning the future hopes of his company in the development of the electric car. | He also offers a staunch defence of the often controve...
Making sure the lights don't go out The Guardian | Given the long lead times for building new electricity capacity we should all be concerned that around a quarter of the UK's electricity generating capacity must be replaced in the next 10 years (, 4 February). However, it is even more worrying tha...
Profits from nature The Star | There are economic benefits to saving rare species. | FORTY-nine. On a Pacific beach in Costa Rica, a researcher whispers the number after counting the slimy, round white eggs just laid by a rare leatherback turtle in a hole dug in the sand under b...
Front-runners differ on plans to fix huge budget deficit Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—The two front-runners in the presidential race struck widely divergent tones when detailing their plans for putting the government's house in order during Monday's Philippine Daily Inquirer presidential debate. | Sen. Benigno Aq...
GSIS’ assumed burden The Daily Tribune | Man at the Market | 02/09/2010 | Factually, contributions deducted from the monthly pay of every government employee, official or rank and file alike, are not enough to cover for all the benefits due them individually upon reaching retirement age, including their monthly pension. | Enabling the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to meet i...
Farm output likely to decline The Hindu | Special Correspondent | NEW DELHI:The output from agriculture sector is likely to decline by 0.2 per cent in the current fiscal due to fall in kharif production on account of drought and floods in several parts of the country against 1.6 per cent growth in the previous year, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) said.. Late last month, the R...
Bring Iraq's Sunnis on Board Khaleej Times The government of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has played a positive and crucial role in stabilising the war-ravaged Iraq. | Maliki has earned himself admiration and praise of Iraqi people as well as the larger Arab world with his no-nonsense approach, often even confronting the Americans. The Iraqi leader risks undermining all that good work by p...
