If Dalip Mukarji is so against trade , why does he live in the one country whose properity is linked to trade? Mr. Mukarji would be well advised to study econ 101, trade benefits everybody!! Western charities primarily act to perpetuate poverty in India!!1 --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Britain blamed for farmers� suicides in India > Sify News, Monday, 16 May , 2005, 16:18 > > London: Trade reforms backed and funded by the > British > government caused an agricultural crisis in India, > leading to a large number of suicides among > impoverished farmers, particularly in Andhra > Pradesh, > a leading charity in London has said. > > More than 4,000 farmers had killed themselves in > Andhra Pradesh since a programme of free-market > measures was implemented by a "hardline liberalising > regime" (Chandrababu Naidu regime) with the help of > 1.65 million pounds (approx Rs 84 crore) grant from > Britain�s Department for International Development > (DfiD), a study for the Christian Aid claimed. > > According to the report, the dramatic increase in > the > suicide rate, which saw 2,115 farmers take their > lives > last year compared with 588 in 2003, is directly > linked to British support for policies joining aid > to > economic liberalisation in developing economies. > > "It is a scandal that the British government has > backed policies and pumped British taxpayers� money > into schemes which have contributed to poor Indian > farmers killing themselves," director of the > Christian > Aid Daleep Mukarji said. > > "The report shows in stark detail the damage that is > done to poor people when the dogma of so-called free > trade is pursued in the name of poverty relief," he > added. > > > >
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