Praful Bidwai - Tag - Foreign Direct InvestmentThis is the official home page of Praful Bidwai.2019-07-16T21:40:53+02:00urn:md5:ca99418856c258681c60a148f375f6dfDotclearUndermining Farmer & Consumer Interests: Retail FDI, wholesale disasterurn:md5:df17dff2d0c60ad5de79aee2765d9ae02012-09-22T21:05:00+02:00adminForeign Direct InvestmentTrade<p><em>Imagine a society where 80 percent of grocery sales are monopolised by just five giant retailers like Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour, where locally grown fresh food is largely replaced by processed, plastic-packaged items with low nutritional value, and where great heterogeneity of attire based on traditional and ethnic fabrics is gradually destroyed—and so-called “consumer choice” is reduced to competition between a handful of brands and logos.</em></p> <p>Published in [Kashmir Times, 21 September 2012 ]
by Praful Bidwai
Imagine a society where 80 percent of grocery sales are monopolised by just five giant retailers like Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour, where locally grown fresh food is largely replaced by processed, plastic-packaged items with low nutritional value, and where great heterogeneity of... <em><a href="http://www.prafulbidwai.org/index.php?post/2012/10/22/Undermining-Farmer-Consumer-Interests%3A-Retail-FDI%2C-wholesale-disaster">Read</em> Undermining Farmer & Consumer Interests: Retail FDI, wholesale disaster</a></p>