Author: Govinda Parayil Publisher: Zed Books ISBN: 9781856497275 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
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At a time when disillusion with neo-liberal development nostrums is mounting, alternative models of development are being revisited. Kerala's 30 million people may not have experienced rapid growth in GDP per capita, but they have for the past several decades achieved a remarkable social record in terms of adult literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, stabilising population growth, and narrowing gender and spatial gaps.What are the implications of the disjuncture between human development and economic growth? What are the political, social and cultural factors responsible for Kerala's success? Does its human development record necessarily relate to sustainability in environmental terms? How inclusive has the Kerala model been, particularly for the fishing community and other socially marginalised groups?Can the new people's campaign for decentralised development from below make Kerala's development experience more enduring? What realistic view can be taken of its replicability elsewhere in India or further afield in the South? These are among the most important questions explored in this timely reassessment.
Author: Publisher: Concept Publishing Company ISBN: 9788170227649 Category : Income distribution Languages : en Pages : 266
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Papers presented at the International Conference on Kerala's Development Experience organized in New Delhi from 8 to 11 December 1996.
Author: B. A. Prakash Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited ISBN: 9789353289188 Category : Languages : en Pages : 428
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Focusing on current economic problems, Kerala′s Economic Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges provides an in-depth analysis of the major development issues and challenges faced by the state. Kerala's development experience has attracted worldwide attention due to its paradoxical development: attaining higher quality of life of people on the one hand and continuation of the backward productive sectors on the other. The state's economy remained backward in many respects and relied heavily on the remittance of Keralite emigrants. The implementation of liberalisation and globalisation policies since 1991 radically altered the growth process and Kerala achieved higher rates of investment and growth and greater technological change. These policies, however, have not only provided enormous opportunities, but also new challenges. This book examines the state's economic growth as well as the issues that have accompanied the policy changes.
Author: Sundar Ramanathaiyer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781138715752 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
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This title was first published in 2000: There has been considerable academic interest in the innovative development programme taking place in Kerala, India. Much has been published on the specific "achievements" of the programme, such as literacy, health care, communication and demographic indicators. However, lurking beneath the surface are the harsh realities of chronic unemployment, poverty and deprivation among the elderly and weaker sections of the society, the oppression of women and the inefficiency of the government. These problems are revealed in this book through in-depth empirical research undertaken by a native Keralan. In the light of this material, this text questions whether the Kerala model of development should indeed be regarded as worth emulation.
Author: Darley Kjosavik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317548485 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different facets of change in their lives and livelihoods in the context of modernisation under different political regimes. As part of the Indian Union, Kerala followed a development approach in tune with the Government of India with regard to indigenous communities. However, within the framework of India’s quasi-federal polity, the state of Kerala has been tracing a development path of its own, which has come to be known as the ‘Kerala model of development’. Adopting a historical political economic approach, the book locates the adivasi communities in the larger contextual shifts from late colonialism through the post-independence years, and critically analyses the Kerala model of development with particular reference to the adivasis’ changing political status and rights to land. It pays special attention to policy dynamics in the neoliberal phase, and the actual practices of decentralisation as a way of including the socially excluded and marginalised. Offering a theoretical elaboration of the interaction between class and indigeneity based on intensive fieldwork in Kerala, the book addresses adivasi development in relation to the general development experience of Kerala, and goes on to relate this particular study to the global context of indigenous people’s struggles. It will be of interest to those working in the fields of South Asian Development, Political Economy and South Asian Politics.
Author: Abdul Azeez N. P. Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783659138850 Category : Languages : en Pages : 432
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Kerala is a small state with a land area of 38,863 sq. km. and a population of 33.4 million situated in the southwestern part of India. Kerala has achieved international level of human development as a result of decades of assiduous adherence to a development credo based on social justice, economic equity and people-centered public policy. The pattern of development with strong government intervention in the social sector has been unique and has drawn considerable attention. Its basic characteristic is the paradox of high social development such as life expectancy, birth rate, infant mortality rate, sex ratio and literacy level especially of the female population, with poor economic growth.It is not only high in comparison with other states and developing economies but also in relation to some of the developed countries. The progress has been achieved by creating social opportunities in education, health and other areas. In this book an attempt has been made to examine various sectors of the economy of Kerala .
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