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Sharma: What Happens When Heads Of State Also Start Lobbying?
Commentary, December, 14 2012
Devinder Sharma
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The demand is for legalising lobbying, following the pattern in the US, and thereby bringing in some regulations to make it more transparent
Sharma: Food Wastage: India Fares Much Better Than the US and Europe
Commentary, November, 06 2012
Devinder Sharma
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Collectively, Americans waste $165 billion worth of food every year
Sharma: Whither India’s Farmers Movement?
Commentary, March, 23 2011
Devinder Sharma
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I still can’t understand. Mohammed Bouazizi, a 24-year-old vegetable seller in Tunisia, sets himself on fire...
Sharma: Caught In The Food Pirates’ Trap
Commentary, March, 02 2011
Devinder Sharma
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Egypt paid the price, so will we if we ignore the Mahatma’s prescription: production by the masses, not for the masses.
Sharma: G 20: Worried about Corporate, Not People
Commentary, November, 22 2010
Devinder Sharma
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I have always failed to understand why the governments have been lowering the interest rate on bank savings. In England, as early as in 1996, banks provided barely one per cent interest on savings.
Sharma: The Emergence Of A New Global Caste System
Commentary, October, 09 2010
Devinder Sharma
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If Shylock was alive today, I am sure he would have floated a public stock offering and would have been amongst the richest in the world. Forbes magazine would have certainly included his name in the list of the top 50 billionaires, and The Econom...
Sharma: A Farming Model to Sustain the World
Commentary, January, 27 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Ten years from now, in 2020, when we try to look back, Indian agriculture can be transformed into a healthy and vibrant system where farmer suicides have been relegated to history, where distress and despondency has been replaced by the lost pride...
Sharma: India's Poverty Line is Actually a Starvation Line
Commentary, January, 02 2010
Devinder Sharma
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There is something terribly wrong with growth economics. After all, 18 years after India ushered in economic liberalisation, the promise of high growth to reduce poverty and hunger, has not worked. In fact, it has gone the other way around: the mo...
Sharma: Biggest Land Grab After Columbus
Commentary, November, 28 2009
Devinder Sharma
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I think the eulogisation of Tata's has gone too far. Behind all the glamour, sobriety and humanitariasm that we read and hear about Tata's, there is a dark hidden side which is kept under wraps. It is time we look at the destructive role Tata's ha...
Sharma: The Missing Link: Climate Change vs Free Trade
Commentary, October, 31 2009
Devinder Sharma
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The countdown has begun. The forthcoming UN Climate Change conference (popularly called CoP 15) scheduled to be held at Copenhagen from Dec 7-18 2009 is generating tremendous excitement. Climate change has suddenly become the buzzword. As top poli...
Sharma: The Dr Borlaug I Knew
Commentary, October, 19 2009
Devinder Sharma
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The late agronomist Norman Borlaug, regarded as the father of the "Green Revolution", is credited with saving millions from starvation. Despite the criticisms of environmentalists, Borlaug had a strong appreciation for the centrality of farmers' l...
Sharma: India: Corruption drives economic prosperity
Commentary, May, 27 2009
Devinder Sharma
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Come to think of it. Over the last few years, there is more prosperity visible all around. More people have disposable incomes, more people are now travelling abroad, more people are flying around in the country, more people throng the super malls...
Sharma: G-20 Summit: Learning from a frog in a pond
Commentary, March, 30 2009
Devinder Sharma
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Top leaders from the largest 20 economies of the world -- called G-20 -- will assemble in London on April 2. As the Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros said: "this will be the world's last chance to avert economic disaster."
Sharma: Do GM Crops Increase Yield? The Answer is No
Commentary, March, 25 2009
Devinder Sharma
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Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort – and it could be that you too are d...
Sharma: Nineteen Blind Men and a Woman, and the Economy
Commentary, November, 23 2008
Devinder Sharma
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This isn't a tale from Panchtantra. Nor is it from Aesop's Fables.
Sharma: In India, the question to be asked: "Where Will the Money Come From?"
Commentary, October, 21 2008
Devinder Sharma
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It didn't hurt when the farmers were dying. Over 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in the past 15 years. And more than 40 per cent of India's 600 million farmers want to quit agriculture looking for menial jobs in the cities.
Sharma: Global Priority: Feeding Markets, Starving Hungry
Commentary, September, 23 2008
Devinder Sharma
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The giants have stepped on a financial minefield. In the past six months, three of America's top five investment banks have disappeared. The remaining two - Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs - are gasping for breath. While Morgan Stanley is conside...
Sharma: Meat Generates Global Heat
Commentary, September, 19 2008
Devinder Sharma
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Science, economics and politics have a strong correlation. Whether it is the continuing debate on international trade or the growing heat on global warming, it is invariably politics that determines the final agenda.
Sharma: Poison in Your Stomach
Commentary, September, 02 2008
Devinder Sharma
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After the rats, goats, sheep and cows, it is now the turn of Indians. In a few months from now, if the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of India has its way, the first genetically modified food crop - Bt Brinjal - will be on your table.
Sharma: What caused WTO collapse? It was cotton subsidies, stupid?
Commentary, August, 05 2008
Devinder Sharma
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In an editorial entitled 'The Next Step for World Trade' (Aug 2, 2008), the New York Times wrote: "The battle lines for the new world order were exposed at the World Trade Organization this week. The breakdown of the Doha round of trade negotiatio...
Sharma: WTO Talks, A Tsunami Averted
Commentary, July, 31 2008
Devinder Sharma
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It was a close call. Till the last minute, suspense became overbearing. Glued to our seats and teetering on the brink of fear, with abated breath we awaited the outcome of the last minute efforts to save an unjust an inequitable "Doha round" deal....
Sharma: Food Crisis, Trade and GM crops
Commentary, July, 22 2008
Devinder Sharma
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It couldn't have been better timed. Global food crisis is turning out to be a savior for the agribusiness industry. More free trade and a fast track adoption of genetically modified crops are being proposed as the possible solution.
Sharma: Short-term remedy, but no long-term vision
Commentary, March, 22 2008
Devinder Sharma
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The Rs 60,000 crore farm loan waiver is a positive step towards addressing agrarian distress. But the 25,000 crore booster for new farm initiatives, which focuses entirely on agribusiness, corporate agriculture and food retail, is likely to lead t...
Sharma: US Farm Bill 2007: Cat among pigeons
Commentary, October, 01 2007
Devinder Sharma
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As a child I had always wondered as to why pigeons shut its eyes when it sees a cat. After all, how na•ve or stupid depending on how you perceive the act, can the pigeons be to think that a visible threat to its life, which is as sure as death, ca...
Sharma: Displacing farmers India will have 400 million agricultural refugees
Commentary, July, 17 2007
Devinder Sharma
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It was on the cards. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announcing the formation of a new rehabilitation policy for farmers displaced from land acquisitions, it is now official -- farmers have to quit agriculture.
Sharma: Markets hate farmers
Commentary, February, 17 2007
Devinder Sharma
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Farmers in United States, Europe and for that matter in other rich and industrialised countries are quitting agriculture. That makes me wonder. Why? After all, they get huge subsidies. They have the advantage of being literate and techno-savvy. Th...
Sharma: The New Maharajas of India
Commentary, December, 17 2006
Devinder Sharma
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What is it like to be a modern-day Indian prince? Devinder Sharma and Bhaskar Goswami explain how the laws of the land are being redefined to bring in the reality of the royal tag for the rich and beautiful.
Sharma: WTO: Doha Destructive Round
Commentary, July, 26 2006
Devinder Sharma
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Expressing hope over efforts to revive the deadlocked World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: "Development dimension must get the prominence and attention -- not in term of words, but in terms of so...
Sharma: The New Pascal Law
Commentary, April, 19 2006
Devinder Sharma
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He came, he spelled out his bias and yet he threatened. Pascal Lamy hasn't changed. Unable to throw away the grotty hat he had been wearing all these years, as trade commissioner for the European Union, he now operates as if he is the chief trade ...
Sharma: Pushing Farmers Out of Farming
Commentary, March, 26 2006
Devinder Sharma
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Forty years after the first Green Revolution was launched, Indian agriculture is faced with an unprecedented crisis. Unmindful of the destructive prowess of the alient technology, the impact of which is being felt all over the country - farm incom...
