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Write short note: Privatization and globalization.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Indian usage runs the two words together, yet they name different things: privatisation is a change in who owns and provides, globalisation a change in how far social and economic relations reach. In India they arrived together in 1991, which explains the confusion — and their later divergence is as instructive as their original coupling.

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  • Why they arrived together
  • How globalisation drove privatisation
  • How privatisation opened society to global flows
  • Where the two pull apart
  • Conclusion

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