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10-10-2012, 11:13 AM

10-10-2012, 11:13 AM #1

http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-sho...110729.htm

E[size=12px]xactly two decades ago, Dr Manmohan Singh, then the finance minister, launched India on a new economic policy course of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation (LPG).[/size]
[/size][size=12px]Singh exploited a short-term foreign exchange crisis to push through a far-reaching long-term agenda. Ironically, on the 20th anniversary of the event, the sleaze associated with neoliberalism, with all its cronyism, criminality and plunder of public wealth, is on full display.[/size]
[/size][size=12px]But neoliberalism's diehard supporters strain to deny a link between LPG and scandals.[/size]

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10-10-2012, 11:14 AM

10-10-2012, 11:14 AM #2

http://links.org.au/node/2818

[color=rgb(69, 69, 69)][size=12px]By Raju J. Das[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(69, 69, 69)][/size][size=12px]April 11, 2012 -- [/color][color=rgb(41, 84, 135)]Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal[/color][color=rgb(69, 69, 69)] -- The Bollywood movie The Dirty Picture (apparently) runs on three things: entertainment, entertainment and entertainment. The dirty picture of neoliberalism runs on three things, as well: class, class, and class. Indeed, neoliberalism must be seen as the restoration and reinforcement of class power (Harvey 2005), class power of large owners of business over the working masses.[/size][/color]
[color=rgb(69, 69, 69)][/size][size=12px]This article makes a series of observations on the multiple aspects of neoliberalism in India as a class project. What is problematic about the â€œNew Economic Policyâ€ (NEP) is not this or that aspect of it (e.g. the idea that it causes an increase in the number of people below the official poverty line). The whole policy is the problem. So it requires a dialectical totalisingcritique, one that places its limited benefits in relation to its enormous costs, seen from multiple vantage points.[/size][/color]

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10-10-2012, 11:15 AM

10-10-2012, 11:15 AM #3

http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=ar...icleID=112

[size=12px]The Indian State has been demonstrating its unwavering committment to private capital and its neoliberal offensive. The education and health sector reflect its anti-people orientation along with other anti-working class measures such as the doing away with old pension scheme, privatisation of airports, neglect of farmers resulting in over 1.5 lakh suicides across country between 1997 and 2005 (Sainath, 2007), etc. On the education front the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a full Planning Commission held on 13[/size]th[/size][size=12px] September 2007 showed his commitment to privatisation by stating that â€œwe also need to recognise the role currently being played by the private sector and the policy design must factor this inâ€ (The Hindu, 2007). A leading weekly then revealed that the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has been trying to moot private partnership in government schools (Raman, 2008). These developments have been taking place along with number of measures that the government has been adopting (Kumar, 2008) to masquerade its real neoliberal face.[/size]

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10-10-2012, 11:16 AM

10-10-2012, 11:16 AM #4

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/11/ev...ed_by_debt

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 yearsâ€”an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has ballooned with economic liberalization that has removed agricultural subsidies and opened Indian agriculture to the global market. Small farmers are often trapped in a cycle of insurmountable debt, leading many to take their lives out of sheer desperation. We speak with Smita Narula of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School, co-author of a new report on farmer suicides in India[/size][/color]

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