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Ramrao: The Story of India's Farm Crisis
Author: Jaideep Hardikar
Publisher: HarperCollins India
One morning in 2014, Ramrao Panchleniwar, a cotton grower in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, consumed two bottles of pesticide in a bid to commit suicide. But he miraculously survived. In Ramrao, journalist Jaideep Hardikar attempts to put a face to India's unending farm crisis with his story. He takes the reader on a journey of the everyday life of an Indian farmer, his daily struggles, his desperation to come out of his situation, his inability and failures, the plethora of issues he faces, and how he decides to put an end to it all. The book is an evocative read that rescues an ordinary life from obscurity and turns it into an essential biography for our times.
Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias In World Development
Author: Michael Lipton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
The great division in the world today, says Michael Lipton, is not between the capitalist and communist, black and white, east and west, or even between rich and poor nations. It exists within the poor countries and it is the division between city and country. In developing countries, wealth is drained from the country, where a little investment would produce big change and channeled into the cities where people who are often far better off put it to far less productive uses. Why Poor People Stay Poor analyses one of the great problems of the present-day world in an astute and original fashion, and it sets out guidelines for a future that could hold out hope to many millions of oppressed and impoverished people.
Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz
Director: Jacques Sarasin
Duration: 87 min
Year: 2008
In this hard-hitting documentary about the perils and promises of globalization, Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz takes a tour of the world which starts in his hometown of Gary, Indiana.
Stiglitz explains that globalization is not only a story of environmental disaster and pressure on wages and working standards. There are countries which have managed globalization well and have found ways to make it work.
Governments who are aware of the potential dangers on unfettered markets, environmental degradation and the limits to free trade can choose a path that works for them and that will ultimately benefit hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Farmers’ Suicides in India – A Methodological and Thematic Analysis in the State of Maharashtra
Author: Alexandra Höfle
Suicide is a global phenomenon resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Worldwide, suicides are particularly frequent in low- and middle-income countries. States of India such as Maharashtra are suffering as the rates of farmers’ suicides rank among the highest in the world. Qualitative research on suicides is scarce while quantitative research is abundant.
While assessing the current state of research on farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra, this thesis analyzes previous quantitative and qualitative studies on this phenomenon. A thematic investigation has also been conducted to make recommendations on future research.
