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NUNS mug disabled orphan for bag of crisps. As a headline, it certainly grabs the attention. This is the title of the latest note from the iconoclastic fund managers at Bedlam Asset Management, and it relates to a phenomenon that is sweeping the world -- rising food prices.
Higher food prices also cause a problem for central banks. Agricultural products are usually excluded from "core" measures of inflation, on the grounds of their volatility. But if there is a long-term secular rise in food prices, as Bedlam suggests, such an exclusion may be shortsighted.
Agflation may also cause political problems around the globe. According to Bedlam, food accounts for 33 per cent of China's consumer- price index and 45 per cent of India's.
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Drawing upon existing literature, this paper briefly discusses aspects of conspicuous consumption. Analysis of the construct has been done in the perspective of changing capitalist structure and dominating socio-philosophical ideologies, especially postmodernism. Effort has been made to extend the original concept and propose necessary refinement and integration of relevant concepts to enable a meaningful, holistic, and contemporary interpretation of the said construct. This paper examines different aspects of consumer behavior, helps to generate some important directions for future research in the field, and also discusses these issues in the context of the transitional socio-economic background of India.
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Even the gloomiest pundits believe India's "trend" growth rate is at least six per cent -- the rate it has achieved since 1991, when Manmohan Singh, then finance minister and now prime minister, removed some of the most crippling constraints of the licence raj. And growth should be faster still if India is able to cash in its "demographic dividend.
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