Q10 Development and Vision of India
Capitalism Is Making You Lonely https://janataweekly.org/capitalism-is-making-you-lonely/ Colette Shade September 5, 2021
In a 2019 poll, 22 percent of millennials reported that they had “no friends.” The World Health Organization has found that loneliness affected 20-34 percent of older people in places ranging from Europe to India to Latin America.
While excessive social media use can be harmful, moderate use can help people stay connected – especially during unique times like the COVID-19 lockdowns. And there is a bigger impediment to intimacy, anyway: capitalism.
In a capitalist system, many people don’t have time to see family and maintain existing friendships — let alone create and nurture new ones. It is difficult to make time to see people when you are, for example, working multiple jobs (often with irregular shift times), commuting, caring for children and family members, and doing basic tasks like cooking, going to the grocery store, and doing laundry, sometimes all at once. Social time often necessarily gets bumped to the bottom of the to-do list.
If we want to have a less lonely society, we need to put human needs — and human relationships — at the center. Under the existing system, that won’t happen.
https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023 the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), finds that at this critical juncture, midway to 2030, incremental and fragmented change is insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the remaining seven years. Implementation of the 2030 Agenda requires the active mobilization of political leadership and ambition for science-based transformations.
The GSDR 2023 highlights key transformations needed in different sectors and provides key findings from the literature, practical examples and tools for progress towards the SDGs. It provides a stylized model to help unpack and understand the transformation process over time and outline the roles of different levers in facilitating various stages of transformation through a systematic and structured approach
, the report outlines how the knowledge enterprisehas to evolve to best serve transformation processes. This will be achieved by both generating knowledge from a broader spectrum of society and connecting that knowledge to decision-making in a more robust and inclusive manner.
the second quadrennial Global Sustainable Development Report prepared by an independent group of scientists Full Report TIMES OF CRISIS, TIMES OF CHANGE: SCIENCE FOR ACCELERATING TRANSFORMATIONS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/FINAL%20GSDR%202023-Digital%20-110923_1.pdf
PUSH TRANSFORMATION BY ACTIVATING SYNERGIES IN THE SIX ENTRY POINTS
1: Human well-being and capabilities
2: Sustainable and just economies
3: Sustainable food systems and nutrition patterns
4: Energy decarbonization with universal access
5: Urban and peri-urban development
6: Global environmental commons
TRANSFORM SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Performance indicators –on impact
Empirical researchon implementation
capacities Support for low-income countries
Open science
Mechanisms for knowledge sharing
Too early to pass verdict on impact of demonetisation: Ex-SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar
Oct 21, 2021 https://youtu.be/8uIufmbYETE?t=776 In ThePrint SoftCover, Rajnish Kumar, author of ‘The Custodian of Trust, a Banker’s Memoir,’ published by Penguin India, the NPA crisis and the inner workings of the SBI.
There is increasing worry that in some areas of critical importance the situation in India has been deteriorating steadily during the last 8 years or so. As India is home to about 18 per cent of people in the world, this is clearly a matter of urgent concern. Hence a review of these disturbing trends is urgently needed with a view to suggesting suitable remedial actions for checking this deterioration. https://countercurrents.org/2022/05/25-issues-of-increasing-and-serious-concern-in-india/
- Inequalities have been increasing recently to record levels. According to the World Inequality Report, after years of significant reduction of inequalities in the post-independence period, inequalities are coming back to their colonial levels in recent times. This report tells us that the bottom 50% have only 6% of the wealth, while the top 1% have 33% of the wealth. The bottom 50% have only 13% of the income, while the top 1% have 22% of the income
By Bharat Dogra
11/05/2022
Amazon, ‘Economic Terrorism’ and the Destruction of Livelihoods Colin Todhunter https://janataweekly.org/amazon-economic-terrorism-and-the-destruction-of-livelihoods/ September 12, 2021
Since the early 1990s, when India opened up to neoliberal economics, the country has become increasingly dependent on inflows of foreign capital. Policies are being governed by the drive to attract and retain foreign investment and maintain ‘market confidence’ by ceding to the demands of international capital which ride roughshod over democratic principles and the needs of hundreds of millions of ordinary people. ‘Foreign direct investment’ has thus become the holy grail of the Modi-led administration and the NITI Aayog.
In January 2021, The Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce JACAFRE published an open letter saying that the three new farm laws, passed by parliament in September 2020, centre on enabling and facilitating the unregulated corporatisation of agriculture value chains. This will effectively make farmers and small traders of agricultural produce become subservient to the interests of a few agrifood and e-commerce giants or will eradicate them completely.
Although there was strong resistance to Walmart entering India with its physical stores, online and offline worlds are now merged: e-commerce companies not only control data about consumption but also control data on production and logistics. Through this control, e-commerce platforms can shape much of the physical economy.