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Article: A little plot of earth: poor Indian farmers on the march.(LAND RIGHTS)
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- New Internationalist
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- January 1, 2008
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In the same week that India celebrated the emergence of home-grown entrepreneur Mukesh Ambani as the world's richest person, landless labourers and socially marginalized groups marched into its capital by the thousand, demanding a piece of the country's new-found prosperity.
Ambani's riches, now topping $63.2 billion, are a product of the economic miracle presided over by the business-friendly Government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a former World Bank economist. But it is a miracle that has not touched an estimated 70 per cent of India's 1.1 billion people who eke a living out of farming and hard, unorganized labour.
According to World Bank ...