Globalization and Food Policy Dilemmas in Developing Countries: Contextualizing the Indian Scenario (Third WORLD PROBLEMS AND ISSUES: PAST AND PRESENT‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Although there are some nuances between globalization and liberalization, for the purpose of this paper, they are regarded as synonymous. Neo-liberal globalization is basically an attempt for capitalist integration through the processes of marketization and trade openness. The contradictory dynamics of neo-liberal globalization are now becoming more and more obvious in various phenomena that it produces such as, economic integration and political disintegration, the movement towards free trade and yet protectionism, greater power of international institutions and multinational corporations (MNCs) and weakening power of nation states in the matter of independent policy formulations.