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Rahul warns against globalisation: 'Excludes as much as it includes'
Posted: Thu Oct 20 2011
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday advocated measures like UID and inculcation of the Buddhist idea of "compassion" to meet challenges posed by globalisation, which, he said, "excludes as much as it includes".
"There are millions left out of the process, millions who do not benefit from globalisation and millions more damaged by its asymmetrical application of power. The local networks that protected them no longer exist," he said at the 20th anniversary lecture of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies.
While he sought to red-flag concerns about globalisation citing the examples of a Vidarbha farmer who drinks pesticide "as global cotton prices tumble" and a tribal boy who walks past a housing colony "built on top of his home never to set foot in it again", Rahul steered clear of a sweeping judgement on globalisation, which came in for sharp criticism from Yale Professor Thomas Pogge.
Invited by the institute to speak on 'Globalisation, Justice and Rights', Pogge attributed to globalisation the emergence of "supranational law and regulations", dominated by alliances like G7, G8 and G20, from which the general public and even the majority of weaker governments are effectively excluded.
Noting that migration is converting India from a static, village-based society into a mobile urban one, Rahul said the process "leaves people bereft of justice and rights". "It is a process that involves fathers sleeping on footpaths in new cities... women being sold silently in the shadows...Our concepts of justice and rights have been structured for static societies," he said.
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 2011
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday advocated measures like UID and inculcation of the Buddhist idea of "compassion" to meet challenges posed by globalisation, which, he said, "excludes as much as it includes".
"There are millions left out of the process, millions who do not benefit from globalisation and millions more damaged by its asymmetrical application of power. The local networks that protected them no longer exist," he said at the 20th anniversary lecture of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies.
While he sought to red-flag concerns about globalisation citing the examples of a Vidarbha farmer who drinks pesticide "as global cotton prices tumble" and a tribal boy who walks past a housing colony "built on top of his home never to set foot in it again", Rahul steered clear of a sweeping judgement on globalisation, which came in for sharp criticism from Yale Professor Thomas Pogge.
Invited by the institute to speak on 'Globalisation, Justice and Rights', Pogge attributed to globalisation the emergence of "supranational law and regulations", dominated by alliances like G7, G8 and G20, from which the general public and even the majority of weaker governments are effectively excluded.
Noting that migration is converting India from a static, village-based society into a mobile urban one, Rahul said the process "leaves people bereft of justice and rights". "It is a process that involves fathers sleeping on footpaths in new cities... women being sold silently in the shadows...Our concepts of justice and rights have been structured for static societies," he said.
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