We have all read about the outsourcing trend that is costing jobs to blue collar workers in the US and Europe. However how many of us have cared to voice our disapproval against the kind of outsourcing that is costing thousands of farmers, the poorest of the poor in India, their lives because of huge US farm subsidies on pesticides exported to developing countries that instead of killing bugs ends up as poison in the hands of the debt-ridden farmers.
Log on to award winning journalist P. Sainath’s India Together series for shocking details of the kind of “agrarian emergency” that Prof. K. Nagaraj of the Madras Institute of Development Studies calls, “a predatory commercialization of the countryside,” courtesy the MNC lobby that supplies crop pesticides to farmers in developing economies.
One disgruntled reader of Sainath’s column blames this “suicide epidemic” in India that presently infects the whole of the once green Vidharba belt in Gujarat on the US on the “patents regime that has totally rigged the international trading system again the small and marginal farmers in poor countries,” the commentator minces no words in saying, “the poverty that Mexico and other countries are exporting to US is the poverty that US has created in those countries in first place through its need-of-the-hour fiscal and monetary policies.”
This reader’s point, as he later explains is simple. That the real or imagined advantage that H1B program is giving workers from another country is infinitesimal smaller than the advantage that the US consumer indirectly forces out from other countries, especially third world countries largely because of the policies followed by Western businesses in these countries. Getting an understanding of such double standards in conducting clinical trials outsourcing in developing countries where legislation governing these trials is weak is equally critical.
Courtesy: http://outsourceportfolio.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment