Full Coverage: Economy

16.06.2006 A paper presented by Dr.Vibhuti Patel, Professor and Head, Post Graduate Department of Economics, SNDT WomenÂ’s University, Mumbai, at the national consultation on Women and Health-Eleventh Plan Priorities and Strategies (sponsored by UNFPA) on June 10-11, 2006 at Chandigarh.

15.06.2006 In the past few weeks global trade talks have been dealt a series of stunning blows. President Bush appointed his chief trade negotiator, Rob Portman, Budget Director. The move was widely viewed as a shift in the administrationÂ’s priorities to focus on internal matters rather than the conclusion of the Doha Round.

09.06.2006 The budget for the next fiscal year, presented by the Pakistan minister of state for finance, Omar Ayub Khan, in the National Assembly on Monday, carries a substantial package of relief for the common man. However, here it must be emphasised that the practice of narrow targeting to tackle the problems of poverty and inequality, as some of the proposed measures envisage, has very rarely yielded the desired results.