Talk:Liberalisation

Govt stalls key liberalisation proposals January 26, 2011 | Prabha Jagannathan, ET Bureau Mutton biriyani and policy liberalisation have a lot in common: both lack pungency and tang without the taste of onions. That's what the government found out over the last several weeks of high food inflation and prices. Unravelling onion prices have forced a jittery government to quietly resort to, if not a mid course correction, at least a policy calibration in the food and fertiliser sectors, not withstanding a "downtrend" from the high food inflation of 18.3% some weeks ago. The... NEWS Liberalisation to help open floodgates to exports June 2, 2003 | Mohommad Adil / ETIG, TNN Liberalisation of agricultural trade has been among the stickiest issues at WTO negotiations. As the September deadline of the Cancun Ministerial approaches, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently concluded a workshop in Colombo, assessing welfare losses to South Asian economies, thanks to miserly liberalisation by developed countres. Apart from case studies drawn from India (among other SE Asian countries) on the impact of... NEWS 'Capital market liberalisation leads to instability' December 28, 2006 | PTI MUMBAI: Even as Reserve Bank has charted a five-year road map to attain fuller float of rupee, noted economist Joseph Stiglitz on Thursday favoured a cautious approach to capital account convertibility. Delivering a lecture on the new paradigm for monetary policy at RBI here, Stiglitz said that liberalisation of capital markets has witnessed more risk, less prudential behaviour and lesser lending from the banking system. ... NEWS Survey wants faster liberalisation of external sector February 25, 2005 | PTI NEW DELHI: Painting a rosy picture for the balance of payments, the Pre-Budget Economic Survey on Friday favoured acceleration of pace of external sector liberalisation. "The growing strength of India's external sector provides enabling conditions to accelerate the pace of external liberalisation. "Further liberalisation of the external sector is also likely to counter some of the upward pressure on the exchange rate of the Rupee," the Survey tabled in Parliament said on... NEWS Need liberalisation of gold mkt: Kenny January 25, 2006 | PTI COIMBATORE: Further liberalisation of the gold market in India through legislation will pave the way for direct links between gold jewellery manufacturers and consumers, Chris Kenny, global markets director of Rand refinery, the world's largest single site refinery and smelter complex, said on Wednesday. Since gold was being brought only through permitted channels and agencies like State Bank of India and direct selling was not allowed, Rand has to channelise its supply only through these... NEWS Montek Singh Ahluwalia for equally liberalised system for small businesses February 26, 2014 | PTI NEW DELHI: Small businesses need an equally liberalised system as bigger companies get to flourish, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission said today. "I don't believe there is anyone who thinks that we need less liberalisation for small businesses...but the suspicion really is that the agenda should not be high jacked by big businesses and that's why we are concerned about crony capitalism," Ahluwalia said in a SKOCH... NEWS RBI liberalises third party payment norms for export, import February 4, 2014 | PTI MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank today liberalised the third party payment norms for import of goods by removing the ceiling of $100,000. Earlier, the amount of an import transaction for third party payment should not have exceed $100,000. The central bank also simplified certain documentation norms related with third party payments for export and import transactions. "... with a view to liberalising the procedure, the limit of $100,000 eligible for third party... NEWS India, Pakistan should liberalise visa regime: ICRIER January 21, 2014 | PTI NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan should further liberalise the visa regime to facilitate movement of businessmen and boost trade and investment between the countries, says a report by ICRIER . The report titled 'India-Pakistan: Trade Perception Survey' said that the chambers of commerce and the governments of both the sides should disseminate policies governing trade to increase awareness among businesses. "Visa regime needs to be improved. Measures that would... NEWS India pushes for liberalised visa regime for SAARC nations January 17, 2014 | ET Bureau NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma on Thursday announced support to a liberalised regional visa regime for SAARC countries and doubling of the number of business visa exemption stickers to 500. He also called for activation and conclusion of the SAARC Agreement on Trade in Services (SATIS). "We need to have a more liberalised visa regime so that more businessmen can travel through the region and also bring investments ," Sharma said at... NEWS India pitches for visa liberalisation in SAARC region January 16, 2014 | PTI NEW DELHI: India today pitched for further liberalisation of visa regime within the SAARC region to facilitate movement of businessmen, in a bid to increase trade and investment. "I will support enhancement of more SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) visas so that more business people can travel. We welcome SAARC countries to invest in India," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said here at the SAARC Business Leaders...