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Discuss the potential role that India could play as the leader of the Global South in realising the goal of establishing a new international economic order in the 21st century.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global South

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The New International Economic Order (NIEO), proclaimed at the UN General Assembly's Sixth Special Session in 1974, sought to complete decolonisation in the economic sphere, giving substance to Jawaharlal Nehru's conviction that political freedom without economic independence is incomplete. It stalled within a decade. India, once among its drafters, now has the size and the…

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  • The agenda India would inherit
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