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COVER
STORY
The
Analyst 500 : India's Biggest and Best Companies
-- Amit Singh Sisodiya, Imrana Moghul and Sudesh Gonela Continuing
its growth momentum of the last few years, India Inc.
came out with another show of sterling performances
in the financial year 2007-08, with several individual
brilliant performances and new milestones. The Analyst
500 once again brings you insights into the performances
of India's largest 500 companies in an eventful year.
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THE
ANALYST 500
Aluminum
: Challenging Times
-- Pawan Burde
Aluminum industry globally is going through challenging
times, amidst demand slowdown, weakening prices and
cost push.
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ANALYST 500
Cement
Industry : Slowdown Blues
-- N Janardhan Rao and Ch Srinivas Rising
interest rates and slower growth in the economy have
affected the cement industry badly.
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ANALYST 500
Computer
Hardware : The China Factor
-- Sarath Kumar S
The ongoing slump and fierce competition among Indian
players have affected R&D outsourcing. The rate war
has left no room for premium pricing. To make matters
worse, China is posing a serious threat to India in
this space.
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ANALYST 500
FMCG
: On the Growth Path
-- N Janardhan Rao and Siba Prasad Pothal Growth
continues to remain buoyant, with both rural and urban
segments growing at about 15%.
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IT-ITeS
Industry : Facing Tough Times?
-- Y Bala Bharathi, Sanjoy De and G P Mrudhula The
Indian IT-ITeS sector, which exhibited sterling performance
over the last 4-5 years, is now facing tough times.
But there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the sector,
and the future holds promise.
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ANALYST 500
Pharma
: Pills for Growth
-- N Janardhan Rao and P S Sarath Chandra With
expensive patented medicine falling out of favor and
governments leaning towards cheaper medicines in which
Indian companies have a price and quality edge over
their global peers, the Indian pharmaceutical players
have enough reasons to cheer.
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Retail
: Tapping the Untapped
-- Y Bala Bharathi and G P Mrudhula Given
the huge untapped potential, the Indian retail sector
still has enough headroom to grow over the long-term.
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Steel
: Facing the Odds
-- Y Bala Bharathi and Sanjoy De
It's a double whammy for the steel industry with
demand slowing down and international steel prices tumbling.
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Indian
Telecom : Ringing in Sync
-- Y Bala Bharathi and Sanjoy De The
Indian telecom sector is tuning up perfectly to reach
towering heights.
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ANALYST 500
Textile
: A Stitch in Time
-- N Janardhan Rao and Siba Prasad Pothal The
global financial meltdown has undermined the viability
of the industry. With a serious contraction in both
export and domestic demand and a liquidity crunch, majority
of the players are struggling for survival.
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ANALYST 500
Banking
: Towards Financial Inclusion
-- R Venkatesan Iyengar Indian
Banking industry needs to create conditions to empower
the marginalized and unbanked sections of the society
and thus facilitate their integration with the economic
mainstream for sustainable development and financial
stability.
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ARTS
& ARTISTS
Inflation,
Money Supply and Milton Friedman : A Tribute to the
Champion of Laissez-Faire
-- G Bhalachandran and Suresh Chandra Babu While
the significance of Friedman's contribution to economic
theory is well-known, the policy advice he gave to several
governments throughout the world remain valid even today,
more so for the current economic policy-making scenario
in India.
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ARTS
& ARTISTS
The
Way We Are : Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
-- M Hanumantha Rao It
has now become an annual Indian tradition to look forward
eagerly to the announcement in October each year of
the Man Booker Prize for the best work of fiction in
English by an author from the Commonwealth and Ireland.
Even the Nobel Prize for literature does not enthuse
the country that much, presumably because an Indian
winner of the prize is so extremely unlikely with just
one past awardee in the last 110 years or thereabouts.
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APOLITICAL
G-20
Summit : What Does It Mean for Emerging Economies?
-- grk The
all-pervasive economic gloom-rising unemployment, foreclosures
and corporate bankruptcies, capped by a forecast of
fall in growth in world economy by 0.8 percentage points
to 2.2% by the IMF-made everyone expect something dramatic
to come out of the recent economic summit of G-20 countries
held on 15th November in Washington, DC. Indeed, many
have gone to the extent of calling it `Bretton Woods-II',
hoping it would-like the original meeting held in New
Hampshire under the shadow of World War II that created
the IMF and World Bank, fixed exchange rate system,
and a body to oversee world trade-come up with some
such dramatic tools.
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