Technology Import Liberalisation Is Not the Answer ISG WE, economists, are very fond of drawing a distinction between 'necessary' and 'sufficient' conditions, almost to the point of making it a...
International Economic Affairs
GOING by the cases of gold smuggling coming to light, it would appear that the smuggling of gold into the country is again on the rise. Several factors operate behind gold smuggling. Not that the...
November 3, 1984 plains the present stagnation in the industry. The affinity for trading margins, exhibited by the manufacturers, has on the one hand been pushing up the foreign exchange outlay for...
Tackling the Debt Crisis ISG AS an international political forum, the Commonwealth is probably one of those very nebulous institutions today whose impact on the policy-makers of its member countries...
last October which showed conditions on Finlay estates in Bangladesh, protesters at the company's AGM carried a symbolic tea packet marked 'Finlay puts the T in exploitation'
Undervalued Yen or Overvalued Dollar? ISG JAPAN'S economy after the Second World War was a highly controlled economy with restrictive tanit and non-tariff barriers applying to trade rigid control on...
crisis-ridden structure by action from the top. The most important point for re-examination is the Section 112 of the CPI(M) Progamme. which really means the entire constitutionalist orientation of...
The Fox and the Chicken-house G P D SOMETIME in 1983 an American political scientist published an article in Asian Survey which began with the following question: Does anyone care to remember how...
SUPPRESSION OF OPPOSITION The failures of development strategy coupled with ruthless personal dictatorship of Sekou Toure generated a considerable opposition to his regime. Sekou Toure opted to deal...
present plight of the industry. The UPASI report claims that it is possible to achieve the production target of 125 million kg of tea by 2002 AD, through productivity gains (52 million kg) and an...
Financing Reagan's Deficit I S G YOU make the Budget, especially the pre-election Budget, for the constituency you wish particularly to cultivate. This is probably what "Ronald Reagan too had in...
Our Rouble Reserves I S G THE principal assumption underlying a bilateral payments arrangement is that the two countries entering into such an arrangement have broadly balanced trade between them...
Bleak IDA-7 Prospects I S G TO understand the current situation, let us start with a hit of past history. The sixth replenishment (IDA-6) of the International Development Association, the .soft loan...
The South Bank Proposal Is OPEC Participation Critical? I S G ACCORDING to an UNCTAD study, completed around mid-1983 at the request of the Group of 77, a South Bank, ie, a bank of and for the...
October 29, 1983 maintained through the media and the sight of a Democratic party in disarray, his victory is by no means assured, certainly not, to use an Americanese, a 'shoo-in.' He will have to...
