Utkarsh Mishra
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Why Does India’s Agricultural System Keep Farmers Poor? | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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India is one of the world’s largest producers of rice, wheat, milk, sugar, fruits and vegetables. Agriculture employs roughly 46 per cent of the country’s workforce yet contributes only around 15 to 16 per cent of GDP. According to NABARD’s All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2021-22, the average monthly income of agricultural households stands at ₹13,661, a figure that, once set against average monthly expenditure of ₹11,710 in the same survey, leaves a margin too thin to absorb a single
Can the Rules Be Rewritten? The Search for a Fairer Global Economy | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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In 1974, a coalition of developing countries brought a formal proposal to the United Nations General Assembly: a New International Economic Order. They wanted fairer terms of trade, greater control over their own natural resources, genuine influence in the institutions governing international finance, and an end to what they described as the structural economic disadvantages inherited from the colonial era. The proposal was debated at length. It produced declarations and resolutions. It did not
Why the IMF Keeps Returning | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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In 2022, Sri Lanka defaulted on its sovereign debt for the first time in its post-independence history. Fuel queues stretched for kilometres. Hospitals ran out of medicines. The president fled the country. Within months, Sri Lanka had signed its seventeenth IMF programme a number that is worth pausing on. Seventeen. For a country the size of Sri Lanka, with a population of roughly 22 million, to have required IMF intervention seventeen times since independence is not a story of a single crisis,
Who Owns Knowledge? The Politics of Patents and Global Power | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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When India and South Africa jointly proposed a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines and related treatments at the World Trade Organisation in October 2020, they had a straightforward argument: the world was in a once-in-a-century pandemic, and the formulas needed to produce life-saving vaccines were legally locked behind patent protection. Vaccine manufacturing capacity existed in India, South Africa, Bangladesh and other countries. What did not exist was the le
Why Countries Rich in Resources Often Remain Poor | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The Democratic Republic of Congo produces around 70 per cent of the world’s cobalt. Guinea holds some of the planet’s largest bauxite reserves. Zambia has exported copper for more than a century. Ethiopia’s coffee accounts for 30 to 35 per cent of its total export earnings, and the livelihood of roughly a quarter of its population depends on the coffee value chain. Yet these countries remain, by most development measures, among the poorer economies in the world. The question this pattern raises
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