--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I too agree with this disagreeable policy of the USA and Britain, trying to impose market forces on people barely able to feed themselves, a bloody shame!
Mario replies: Gabe, your own post says, "The report claimed western nations were backing free trade policies devised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, aiming at an end to barriers, tariffs and subsidies." I didn't see any specific mention of the US. Nice try, though, at using this as an opportunity to add the US to the list of entities to blame for the policy. The problem was not with the imposition of market forces, without which Indian farmers would continue to be mired in the 19th century. The problem was with the faulty implementation of the changes from a system which made the farmers inefficient and dependent on government, to the free market. This is not an easy change to make across a huge economy, and the farmers should have been eased into it over at least a decade with the use of self-governing co-operatives and graduated financial subsidies.
