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Today
Radio New Zealand rebroadcast an interview with Chandran
Nair, available HERE.
His
views, call for a rethinking of consumption and western ideas of
'democracy', and call for constraint in a world that does not have
the resources to allow for western models of consumption while
providing for the rights of all to healthy food, water, shelter and
medicine, without resprssion and exploitation. They provide a
challenge to a western-centric view of the world
Chandan
Nair: Constraining Consumption
In
this talk economist Chandran Nair argues that the Western model of
consumption-led economic growth cannot be replicated in Asia with
global resources under increased pressure.
Listen to the full audio: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/constraining-consumption
Listen to the full audio: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/constraining-consumption
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