For Shiva, while excessive statist bureaucracy might be called the problem, or part of the problem, globalizing capitalism is certainly not the solution. The solution is a decentralized, ecologically sustainable, and ethical economy along Gandhian lines. The solution is certainly not simply the simple withdrawal by the state from the role it formerly played as regulator of the economy. The latter, the current neoliberal wave of privatizations and budget cuts, is indeed the proximate cause of several current disasters – which include, to extend a bit the list started above, renewed famine and threat of famine, the extinction of the biodiversity on which the future of life depends, poisoning the soil, a wave of farmer suicides……. Granting that liberalization of a constructive kind is needed, Shiva condemns the kind of liberalization that is actually happening. More specifically, she condemns the following set of policies, not so much as separate policies, but as elements of the implementation of a coherent malevolent philosophy: 

---free import of fertilizers, and deregulating the domestic fertilizer industry 

-- removing restrictions on how much land a person can own 

-- removing subsidies for water, electricity, and credit 

-- deregulating the production of wheat, rice, sugar, cotton, and oilseed 

-- downsizing the system for providing food security for the poor 

-- removing controls on markets, traders and processors 

-- removing subsidies to cooperatives 

-- abolishing the general ban on futures trading 

-- abolishing inventory controls 

-- abolishing selective credit controls on inventory financing 

-- treating farmers’ cooperatives on an equal footing with the private sector (6)