economy - Himal Southasian (Page 10)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

At the same time as India gets ready to launch the 'second phase' of neo-liberal economic 'reforms', the Bharatiya Janata Party-dominated government is trying

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 Dec 1999

CRACKDOWN

The suspense mounted as 16 November drew near. A month earlier, the new military ruler of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, had warned all "willful" loan defaulters to repay

By Zaigham Khan

/ 1 Dec 1999

A house of my own

Mega projects and Nawaz Sharif seem to be made for each other. Sharif has to his credit a 16-billion-rupee yellow cab scheme and a 40-billion-rupee Lahore-

By Zaigham Khan

/ 1 Oct 1999

It’s going to be a long, expensive, cold war

As the guns fall silent in Kargil, New Delhi is preparing for the awesome and expensive task of permanently manning the previously unguarded and desolate mountainous frontier. More than two

By Rahul Bedi

/ 1 Aug 1999

The Cool-Cab indicator

The Indian economy is on a roll, ask the Bombay taxi driver. Cool Cabs are the electric-blue, air-conditioned taxis that were introduced in Bombay about five years ago.

By Shantanu Nagpal

/ 1 Jul 1999

YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

After covering a distance of some 3500 kilometres through the length and breadth of the country, a 'flag march' organised by the youth wing of the ruling Pakistan

By Zaigham Khan

/ 1 Jan 1999

If you liked the bomb, here is the book

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Y.R. Rajan Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1998 pp xvi+312, INR 395

By Ajaya Dixit

/ 1 Jan 1999

Morning after

The mood in Pakistan changed swiftly following the nuclear tests, from what was dubbed as "euphoria" into today´s uncertainty and fear, which have escalated as the extent

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Nepal forgets Tibet

Kathmandu is closer to Beijing than to Lhasa. Till as late as the first decade of this century, the government in Kathmandu paid tribute to the Chinese court. Once every

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 1 Jun 1998

Patience, patience & patience

Unlike other countries, where positioning of your business tends to be much smoother, doing business in India requires "patience, patience and patience", said Roger Mabey, Executive Director of

By Rakesh Shukla

/ 1 Apr 1998

Net profit

Trading activity on the internet – in contrast to information about product and services – is a relatively new development. The major impediment till recently was lack of a reliable and secure

By Mukesh Patel

/ 1 Jan 1998

Tears, but no protests

A strange element in Sri Lanka´s long-drawn civil war, now in its fourteenth year, is that despite the blood that has been shed and the limbs that have

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1997