Rahul Gandhi’s dialogue with Muhammad Yunus will be broadcast on his YouTube channel.
New Delhi:
Congressman Rahul Gandhi’s dialogue with renowned Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus will be shown on his YouTube channel on Friday in which they will be seen discussing ideas that could reshape the post-pandemic world and delve into the limits of adopting a Western economic model. , said the party.
In the latest episode of conversations the congressman has had on the coronavirus pandemic, Mr Gandhi and the founder of Grameen Bank will challenge the wisdom of pushing millions to migrate to urban areas and examine the role of the technology in rural areas, he said.
Chief Congressional Spokesman Randeep Surjewala said around the world the coronavirus pandemic has exposed serious loopholes in societies and glaring inequalities that have compounded the crisis.
“Even though there is criticism of conventional economic wisdom, there is a growing global movement calling for alternative models of development, especially in developing countries,” he said in a statement.
“The pandemic offers a window of opportunity to fundamentally reinvent the future we want and push bold decisions in that direction,” Mr. Surjewala said.
Giving an overview of the conversation, he said Mr Gandhi and Yunus would discuss big, bold ideas that could reshape the post-pandemic world.
“They explore the limits of adopting a Western economic model and call for a new vision that builds on the strength of our rural economy and the informal sector,” he said.
“One of the pioneers of microcredit, Muhammad Yunus shares valuable lessons on financial empowerment and what it takes to support micro-entrepreneurs among some of the world‘s most vulnerable social groups,” Mr. Surjewala said, giving an overview of the discussion will be broadcast on Mr Gandhi’s YouTube channel on Thursday morning.
Mr Gandhi’s latest conversation was with four Indian nurses working in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and India where they shared their experiences in battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of his dialogues with various experts, Mr Gandhi spoke with leading global economists Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee, internationally renowned epidemiologist Johann Giesceke, global public health expert Ashish Jha, industrialist Indian Rajiv Bajaj and former American diplomat Nicholas Burns.
