Youth is the latest mantra & Zee is next

After a spate of announcements of launches in the general entertainment genre of Indian television by many players, Zee Group has also announced their plans to launch their second general entertainment channel. Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd. will launch a youth channel called ZeeNext, which will focus on a younger audience ‘without alienating the higher age group’. However, the company has abstained from revealing the actual date of the launch and the investment that will go into the venture. Recently, the Indian television industry has seen a lot of efforts by existing and new players in weaning the youth of the country towards the general entertainment channel segment by either pepping up their offerings or by announcing new channels.

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Government is imposing unwarranted and oppressive restrictions on entrepreneurs.

Three examples will indicate that India Inc. does have much to fear, particularly in terms of this government adopting a mai baap stance and imposing unwarranted and oppressive restrictions on entrepreneurs, companies and middle class Indians in the name of helping the aam aadmi. In no particular order of the intensity of their anti-business sentiments, the three retrograde steps are:

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  Most political pundits have concluded that the most important factor behind the electoral reverses faced by the Congress is rising inflation. So how does the government tackle inflation? The Reserve Bank of India (though nominally independent of the Union Government and the Finance Ministry) resorts to yet another baffling and inexplicable hike in interest rates. Even college students of Economics would know that these rate hikes would not do much to tame inflation because it is prices of food products and other primary articles that are causing inflation to rise. Raising interest rates to suck liquidity away from the system will not lead to an increase in supply of food products. These persistent rate hikes have come as a body blow to the Indian middle class, which now has to cough up that much more for loans to buy automobiles and houses. In fact, so steep is the increase in Equated Monthly Installments on home loans that most banks are now preparing to confront hundreds of thousands of defaults. It is the middle-class Indian that is getting hurt by this.
  
  
  
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  This is procurement season and a time when millions of Indian farmers get paid for their sweat and toil as their harvest is sold. In recent years, many private companies ranging from ITC to Reliance have joined the fray and now compete with the government-owned and controlled Food Corporation of India to buy food grains from farmers. Farmers have benefitted immensely from this. And, with a revolution in organised retail on the cards, everyone knows that corporate procurement will lead to farmers getting better prices not just for food grains, but also for fruits and vegetables. Yet, invisible mandarins in the corridors of power issue a diktat that virtually threatens private sector companies with punitive action if they procure food grains from farmers. This is strange behaviour for a government publicly committed to improving the lot of farmers. That’s because private companies are offering more than Rs.1,000 per quintal of wheat, while the FCI is offering just Rs.850. This is not only a blatantly anti-farmer move, it also sends a powerful message to the private sector that the mai baap sarkar can change the rules of the game anytime it whimsically wants to.
  
  
  
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  In 2005, the government tabled a bill in the Parliament that would allow the formation of Special Economic Zones across India. Hundreds of businessmen, entrepreneurs and investors flocked to invest in SEZs. So eager was the government to hand out cheap land to big business that it completely ignored the interests of land owners – mostly farmers. And once Nandigram happened, there was a virtual clampdown on the SEZ. The sensible step would have been to do what Business & Economy has been advocating for a while – let the market decide the land rates and let farmers own equity in the SEZs. Instead of this, the government has changed the rules to make bureaucratic interference more easy and pervasive.

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Chavéz’s Land Reforms Are Truly More Than Forcible Land Distribution

Venezuela, like other Latin American countries, has witnessed an extremely unequal land ownership system, where only 5% of the population controlled roughly 75% of the agricultural private land. Importantly, almost 60% of the agricultural labourers have been landless. Migrating to urban centers, these landless labourers have flocked to slum areas, complicating things further. The oil boom of 1990s succeeded in earning petrodollars, the benefit for which again fl owed to select few of the elite. Neglect of agriculture and iniquitous land equation made Venezuela a net food importer. The land reforms seek to change exactly that.

For Chavéz to succeed, his land reform initiatives have to be merged with provisions of financial credits, technical expertise and marketing assistance for the farmers. But all in all, there is no doubting the fact that Hugo Chavéz has redefined socialism dramatically and humanely. If only Left ists across the world could learn from him...

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Just did it!!!

For the great, the ordinary is... extraordinary! And why not? Look at Nike Inc. Who could have imagined a swashbuckling 12.7% growth in earnings per share (EPS) over a decade behind its modest M-Cap curtain of $26.45 billion?

Its financials of late, too, have been nothing short of fabulous with 9% growth in revenues – which touched $3.9 billion during the quarter ended February 28, 2007 – and an 18.5% rise in EPS to $1.37. And where competition is concerned, Nike – valued by the market at 17 times its forecasted 2008 earnings – is clearly way above its arch-rivals Adidas (valued at 12 times) and Puma (valued at 12.5 times). But while it deserves a congratulatory pat on the back for its performance, does it also mean that the world’s completely snug in Nike’s shoes?

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Indian agriculture sector stands a perpetrator of global warming

Main agricultural sources in the biological generation of methane have been the flooded rice fields and anaerobic animal waste processing. Shockingly in India, the agricultural sector itself produces a whopping 80% of methane created in the country; of which 23% is especially from paddy cultivated regions. Almost 65% of Indian farmers have been solely dependent on rice in terms of employment as well as feeding themselves. The rice-centric obsession has ensured that rice gets cultivated even in those regions where it is environmentally not suitable.

It must be brought to notice here that the Indian Council of Agriculture Research, using complex spatially photographed data, had divided the country into 15 agro-climatic zones. The purpose here was to promote only those crops in particular environmentally sustainable regions. But almost nobody cared to follow the zone theory.

One example – much against the environment quotient, rice gets cultivated in the Ganganagar District of Rajasthan ably supported by the Indira Gandhi Canal. The effect – malaria, soil salinity and environmental destruction galore. Such examples are a dime a dozen; India needs to look within, or be doomed without.

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Dollar losing Pounds!!!

First hit – a buy order for an overseas fund goes through. Second hit – long positions on Gold futures and Gold ETFs is ensured. And a last hit to add some foreign currencies to the portfolio. Well, this seems to be one of the off -beat workouts being performed with amazing perfection and haste, across many trading terminals, as the dollar continues its free fall. Now, everybody is scampering for a hedge against the dollar and the question whether the dollar downfall trend will continue or reverse in future holds tremendous significance. Many vouch for the fact that the dollar will and should fall for the global imbalances to balance out. Well, perturbingly, reality begs to differ!

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When our changing ‘expectations’ are vital...

On December 10, Edmund Phelps, my colleague at Columbia University, would have received the Nobel Prize in economics for 2006. The award was long overdue. While the Nobel Prize committee cited his contributions to macroeconomics, Phelps had made contributions in many more areas, including the theory of growth and technological change, optimal taxation, and social justice. Phelps’ key observation in macroeconomics was that the relationship between inflation and unemployment is affected by expectations, and since expectations change over time – so too, will the relationship between unemployment and inflation change. If a government attempts to push the unemployment rate too low, inflation will increase, and so, too, will inflationary expectations. This insight holds two possible policy implications. Some policy-makers have concluded from Phelps’ analysis that unemployment rate cannot be lowered permanently without ever-increasing levels of inflation.

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The official vote count isn’t credible

The problem is that the official vote count isn’t credible. In much of the 13th District, the voting pattern looks normal. But in Sarasota County, which used touch-screen voting machines made by Election Systems & Soft ware, almost 18,000 voters – nearly 15% of those who cast ballots using the machines – supposedly failed to vote for either candidate. That compares with undervote rates of 2.2-5.3% in neighbouring counties.

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Portfolio careers and the KRA Cocktails

I would like to complement the serious issue picked up about ambiguous job descriptions and multi-tasking pressures in the fast growing small and medium businesses today. While on one hand, the executives grapple with these pressures, there’s also a new trend that’s on the rise of pursuing portfolio careers. Portfolio careers is where a single executive or a professional takes up jobs, diverse in nature (for eg., one individual doing jobs of teaching, journalism, counseling etc.,) according to their interests. The trend is quite significant in the west, and India will catch up soon.

Sanjay Kumar, Sr. Administration Officer DRDO, Pune

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The real WMDs...

When the world gawks with suspense at the nuclearisation saga in several regions, one giant killer is silently relegated to background. Labeled as the ‘weapons of mass destruction in slow motion’ by United Nation’s Secretary General Kofi Annan, the proliferation of small weapons and light arms has caused immense misery and death in several conflict zones of the world. According to the International Red Cross, rifles, rocket launchers, pistols and grenades have known to cause approximately 3 million deaths in the last decade. The most commonly known variant, the AK-47 almost numbers 50 million world wide, enough to exterminate a sizeable chunk of world’s population.

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