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Link: https://macromusings.libsyn.com/shruti-rajagopalan-on-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-indian-economy
Rajagopalan, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center discusses the progress of India’s economy over the years. She compares the size of India’s economy compared the countries such as the U.S. and China, as well as how previous reforms have affected their economy and further reforms in their economy that could improve its development.
Original Air Date: October 19, 2020
Length: 1 hour, 6 minutes
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/boom-and-bust-story-crop-called-guar
Summary: Guar is a small bean, and it had a recent rise and fall in the marketplace. Besides being an additive to thicken many foods, it’s also used in fracking. When fracking took off, the price of guar rose. As the price increased, Texas farmers started growing a lot of it, until Pakistan and India–which grow 98% of the guar combined–caught up to the demand. As a result, oil companies stopped hoarding it, and the prices dropped. The Texas farmers were left without buyers, and caused a chain reaction of bankruptcy.
Original Air Date: October 9, 2014
Length: 2 minutes 47 seconds
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/04/142016962/the-friday-podcast-how-fear-turned-a-surplus-into-scarcity
Summary: Story of the origins of the 2008 global rice shortage “that wasn’t”.
Original Air Date: November 4, 2011
Length: 24:33
Main story content begins: 2:12
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/06/04/127480338/the-friday-podcast-india-s-economy-is-booming-but-not-for-everybody
Summary: Considers questions about economic disparity in benefits from economic growth by talking with a cobbler who lives on the streets and economic policy makers in India.
Original air date: June 4, 2010
Length 23:56
Main story content begins: 2:27
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