The Financial Express -- Expressions

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Saturday, July 19 1997

Letters to the Editor

Setting the record straight

The Financial Times is a major world business newspaper with "10 print sites across the globe read by 1.3 million readers in 165 countries" (in the words of Mediascope, its exclusive Indian representative).

Edible oil: government slips up

This is a classic case of government contradicting its own estimates without even realising it. One look at the demand-supply gap in edible oils and oilseeds availability estimates given by the government for the oil year 1996-97 (November-October) and it doesn't take to be an expert to grasp the fact that the country has become self-sufficient in oil and oilseeds production.

Predicatable prescription

The International Monetary Fund's prescriptions for sustained growth in India are nothing new. All it's suggestions have been predictable-the increase in petroleum prices, the need for an exit policy, the need for more independence to the RBI, pruning state and central government deficits, and liberalising consumer goods imports.

Releasing non-strategic PSUs

From the FE files

Open invitation to NPAs