Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
Colin Todhunter
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Open letter by ‘Joint Action Committee Against Foreign Retail and E-commerce’ (JACAFRE) on farmers’ agitation
Parminder Jeet Singh from IT for Change talks
GRAIN
is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support
small farmers and social movements in their struggles for
community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems
Prabhat Patnaik
Challenging the assertion that consumers in India will gain with the availability of cheap imported goods through Walmart's takeover of Flipkart, Prof Prabhat Patnaik, argued that ‘consumers are not a distinct identity from local producers who will be displaced by cheaper imports. With the control of the Indian market by two multinational retail giants, we will see two distinct processes of deindustrialisation; one of local traders and the other of local producers’.
