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The article discusses caste-based quotas and how the state needs to realize that reservation has outlived its utility as a policy measure. The government needs to look at the policies again and consider replacing caste-based quotas.

It states how the "caste-based quotas in matters of promotion should not be allowed" due to the fact that it isn't doing what it's supposed to do. Therefor the name "Junk quotas".

This article is about the reluctance to increase quotas for low-price sugar imports, due to the increased domestic production. Therefore from our IB Economic Theory, arguments against trade protection are used, specifically because it breeds inefficiency and leads to higher prices for consumers.Favorable weather in major sugar cane- and sugarbeet-growing areas are expected to lift production this season, as well as those in Mexico, which will be of benefit to the US since they are in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the US can import as much as it wants without any trade barriers to satisfy the domestic demand, although it is said that supplies presently outpace demand.

Norway has imposed a new set of laws which require at least 40% of Plc. board members to be women in order for the firm to be for professionally and globally focused.

This article is about how more cattle are being exported to Indonesia from Australia. This is due to an improvement in terms of trade by the lifting of a quota on live cattle imports. It talks about how this improvement of trade terms will be great for the Australian agriculture industry.

MUTSUO BANBA's rice farm in Ishikawa prefecture, on the north-west coast of Japan's main island, is a mosaic of plots, many separated by land belonging to others. In the season, Mr Banba, a full-time farmer, takes care to water his rice every day. Others, he says disapprovingly, do not.

The article talks about field work in China and tariffs