Prabhat Patnaik speaks
Khairul Hassan Jahin
Prabhat Patnaik, professor emeritus of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and a leading Marxist economist, speaks to The Daily Star about the limits of neoliberalism and export-led growth, the need for greater economic sovereignty in the Global South, and the possibility of an alternative development path for countries like Bangladesh.
The Daily Star (TDS): For decades, many developing countries have supplied the world with cheap labour and raw materials, while wealthier countries have consumed the finished products. Is this model beginning to break down? As global inflation, trade tensions and supply-chain disruptions…