After two decades of neoliberalism, India's magnates and corporations are profiting as never before, writes Colin Todhunter. But the entire economic edifice is built on the dispossession of the poor, locked into debt servitude, and ever rising income inequality. Prime Minister Modi's latest move, 'demonetization', is yet another example of the state stealing from the poor to give to the obscenely rich.
… social indicators among the six South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, … of India. Under neoliberalism, India leads Asia in income inequality The neoliberal model …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… the WHO. The organisation reports South-East Asia had a diabetic population of around 47 … which now see their main growth markets in Asia, Africa and South America, where … which now see their main growth markets in Asia, Africa and South America. …
Corporate lobbyists and their tame politicians love to present GMOs as being humanitarian in purpose, writes Colin Todhunter - as if they exist only to feed the starving millions. But if that's the case, why are they silent on genocidal land grabs, agrochemical poisonings and the destruction of efficient, productive smallholder farming?
… feed itself . Across the world, not least in Asia, peasant farming is being dismantled in …