Western billionaire foundations fund sensationalized health studies to influence Indian policy
Sanjeev Sanyal · Sanjeev Sanyal UNFILTERED - Kolkata’s Downfall, Bihar’s UPSC Craze & The Indian Dream I Neon Show · Mar 22, 2024 · at 16:36
Sanjeev Sanyal, economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India, critiques the funding apparatus and policy incentives behind foreign-sponsored poverty research in India.
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“One of these billionaire foundations will go and fund these studies. Then those studies will show either nutrition, vitamin D deficiency, whatever, whatever it is, the latest thing that you want to sell to India. And then it will be, then next stage will be, it will come out even more sensationalized. In the press. So what will happen is that public perception will be built up for a certain povertarian narrative, and then that pressure will be used to carry out certain policy interventions, which, you know, are useful to whoever was the original funder of the project. And so you'll be sold medicines, you'll be sold baby food, you'll be sold all kinds of things.”
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