Our Economic System
Globalisation has dazzled us with more and more technology and new products ranging from clothes and shoes to cars and cheap flight tickets. What are its disastrous consequences which we often don’t connect with our economic system, but put in a different basket and make feeble attempts to solve? Is GDP the best measure to scale the success of a nation or are they more inclusive methods ?
This section focuses on understanding root level issues of our economic system which has become a juggernaut pushing for unending growth and the price we have to pay for it.
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Can MGNREGA be a tool for post-COVID-19 rural recovery
This blog takes a look at the varied effectiveness of MGNREGA, a rural employment scheme. It focuses on India's agriculture sector as a vehicle for...
The Art and Science of Economic Policy – Podcast
In this podcast episode, economic policy, which affects each of us is discussed. Economics is a sphere of life that most of us are quite unaware of...
Local heroes
Photo Courtesy istock Helena Norberg-Hodge outlines how localising economic activity could halt ecological breakdown. Among environmental...
Local is Our Future
Helena Norberg-Hodge Poverty, climate change, the erosion of democracy, an epidemic of depression – these and other global crises are symptoms of a...
Localization and the Economics of Happiness
A community garden in Brooklyn, New York, that grows organic vegetables for the surrounding community [© Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via...
Sharing lessons from ‘Little Tibet’
Helena Norberg-Hodge. Courtesy Chris Tucker [email protected] The remote region of Ladakh, in northern India, seemed idyllic at first, recalled...
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
WILL POWER / FLICKR By Helena Norberg-Hodge If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways...
The Sharing Economy: Capitalism’s Last Stand?
Is the sharing economy the first part of a New Economic Paradigm or is it capitalism’s latest trick to survive at all costs? Arthur De...
Why is Food allowed to Travel across Continents? Why not popularise local products and local markets?
Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the...
