The report sheds light on the various issues concerning migration and mobility. It gathers the fruit of two decades of research done at the CDS and examines migration dynamics from demographic, econom... Section: Working Papers
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 17 Jan 2019 This paper examines the dimension of inequality since our earlier work on poverty and deprivation suggest that social inequality seems to overwhelm all other inequalities in a whole range of indicator... Section: Working Papers
by K.P. Kannan | On 15 Dec 2018 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name... Section: Working Papers
by Mijo Luke | On 15 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the conditions under which an existing bilateral free trade area (FTA) prefers to expand in size and when it prefers consolidation through customs union (CU) formation when the exi... Section: Working Papers
by Sunandan Ghosh | On 15 Nov 2018 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac... Section: Working Papers
by P.L. Beena | On 15 Oct 2018 The study attempts a comparative assessment of the changing employment situation in major Indian states, measured in terms of worker-population ratios and the distribution of workers into status group... Section: Working Papers
by A.V. Jose | On 15 Oct 2018 This paper analysed the trends and pattern of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure of manufacturing firms in India in both voluntary and mandatory period. For the analysis, this study use... Section: Working Papers
by P. Kavitha | On 15 Sep 2018 The paper makes an analysis of cash holdings in India and attempts to test its association with tax effort and government spending. The finding arrived is that the ratio of Cash holding to Nominal GDP... Section: Working Papers
by R. Mohan | On 01 Jun 2018 There were intensive efforts at monetary cooperation in the interwar years to overcome the imbalances accumulated during the war years to reduce the rate of inflation, reduce the rate of unemployment... Section: Working Papers
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 01 Jun 2018 The paper makes an analysis of cash holdings in India and attempts to test its association with tax effort and government spending. The finding arrived is that the ratio of Cash holding to Nominal GDP... Section: Working Papers
by R. Mohan | On 01 Jan 2018 The anxiety that technology will displace jobs on a large scale in
the near future is flooding both academic and public debates, primarily
in the developed world. The recent publication of a study b... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Dec 2017 This paper examines the operation of the gold standard (GS) during the period 1870-1914, its heyday. It discusses the theory of balance of payments adjustment under the GS. Theory postulates automatic... Section: Working Papers
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 01 Jun 2017 This paper uses simultaneous equations error component three-stage least squares
(EC3SLS) panel data technique to find out both the direct as well as the indirect impact of
trade, industrial dissimi... Section: B G Kumar Lecture
by Pronab Sen | On 20 Feb 2017 Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state by area and the sixth most populous state in India with 75 million as per the 2011 census. The state was ranked sixth among the states in India according to th... Section: Working Papers
by S.Irudaya Rajan | On 01 Feb 2017 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi... Section: Working Papers
by Vinoj Abraham | On 01 Sep 2016 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi... Section: Working Papers
by Vinoj Abraham | On 01 Sep 2016 There is a growing recognition of the importance of academic
research in India and is being monitored by public institutions. However
the focus in these assessments has remained largely confined to... Section: Working Papers
by Amit S. Ray | On 01 Apr 2016 The paper examines the fiscal scene of Kerala, during the last one
and a half decades, by looking at the trends in receipts and expenditure.
It finds that a revenue led fiscal consolidation is the w... Section: Working Papers
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 01 Apr 2016 This paper discusses the demographic and socio-economic profile
of religious communities (Castes among the Hindus, Sects among the
Muslims and Denominations among the Christians) in Kerala’s three
... Section: Working Papers
by K. C. Zachariah | On 01 Apr 2016 Measurement of achievement or progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) should be suggestive of the issues involved
in intertemporal comparison. Commonly, we observe that the
measure... Section: Working Papers
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 01 Jan 2016 We analyse the evolution of the Indian economy over the past six
decades, particularly identifying structural breaks. We find that usually
there has been a gradual change in the indicators of the ec... Section: Working Papers
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 01 Nov 2015 The ppt explains about the 2014-15 economic survey of India. Section: Reports
by Arvind Subramanian | On 09 May 2015 This paper attempts a welfare comparison of population where only ordinal information is available at the micro level in terms of multi-dimensional discrete well-being indicators. This does not involv... Section: Working Papers
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 01 May 2015 The paper intends to revisit this argument, particularly in the light of the change in deficits and surpluses in the world economy. The paper tries to trace the genesis of BWII to the debates which or... Section: Working Papers
by Krishnakumar S | On 01 Jan 2015 Kerala Migration Survey (KMS) 2014 is the sixth in the series of
studies on international and internal migration from Kerala undertaken
by the Centre for Development Studies as an ongoing project si... Section: Working Papers
by K.C. Zachariah | On 01 Jan 2015 This paper tries to argue that local governments constitutionally
mandated to ‘plan for economic development and social justice’ at the
local level are eminently qualified to take up the task of wor... Section: Working Papers
by Oommen M A | On 01 Oct 2014 The focus of the paper is to suggest an alternate methodology for
horizontal devolution from divisible pool of Central taxes and
disbursement of grants. Tax devolution criteria suggested are populat... Section: Working Papers
by R. Mohan | On 01 May 2014 This
paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over
150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women workers from Trivandrum
district to argue that the conditions that structure i... Section: Working Papers
by Praveena Kodoth | On 01 Mar 2014 This paper focuses on the fishing hamlet of Adimalathura located
on the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, which has
been identified as an area of extreme developmental disadvantage... Section: Working Papers
by J. Devika | On 01 Jan 2014 This paper is a limited attempt at sketching the history of a
prominent slum in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, using mainly the
memories of residents collected as oral narratives. [CDS Working pape... Section: Working Papers
by J Devika | On 01 Oct 2013 The paper analyses the changing leadership in Computer and
Information Services (CIS). Leadership is measured in terms of export
shares. The leadership appears to have changed from United States of
... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Sep 2013 In this paper the application of ICTs to the improvement of state-citizen relations in a developing country context. To maximise the responsiveness of the government, ICTs need to target the structura... Section: Working Papers
by Silvia Masiero | On 01 Dec 2012 The results of the Kerala Migration
Survey (KMS) 2011. It is the fifth in the series of comprehensive studies
on international and internal migration from Kerala being undertaken
by the Centre for... Section: Working Papers
by K. C. Zachariah | On 01 Sep 2012 This paper covers recent trends in a series of broad indicators of the financial health of the Government of Kerala with its developmental policy as the backdrop. It examines fiscal balances in Kerala... Section: Working Papers
by Tapas K. Sen | On 01 Jul 2012 Enrolments in engineering in Kerala increased from about 2800 in 1991 to about 28,000 in 2008. The study analyses whether this increase in potential supply of engineers has resulted in actual supply o... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 30 Mar 2012 Modeling of the seasonal time-of-day pricing is done of electricity for two types of power systems
– pure hydro and hydro-thermal under four structural welfare assumptions
– first-best, second-best,... Section: Working Papers
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 20 Mar 2012 The mainstay of the public transport system in Kerala is the private
stage carriages (PSC), the economics of operation of which is the subject
of this paper. The long run sustainability of the secto... Section: Working Papers
by Narayana D | On 28 Sep 2011 Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the
emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work
are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.
Specia... Section: Working Papers
by Praveena Kodoth | On 24 Sep 2011 The
impact of the global crisis on the (Gulf Corporation Council) GCC economies is first analyzed in
terms of the sectors of the economy affected, the changes in GDP growth
and employment of expatr... Section: Working Papers
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 08 Aug 2011 How much more taxes would it be possible for Panchayats in Kerala to collect? This
question is important in deciding the financial allocations to such local governments.
Information regarding this m... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Centre for Development Studies | On 17 Jun 2011 The paper is an analysis of the growth in services leading to the emergence of a manufacturing industry. Although the industry is dominated by MNCs, domestic firms have started making an entry into do... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 07 Apr 2011 This paper tries to
focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration
based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting
characteristics of short durat... Section: Working Papers
by Vijay Korra | On 18 Mar 2011 This paper about return emigrants in Kerala is based on
information on return emigrants collected by the Centre for Development
Studies (CDS) through several of its recent large-scale household
sur... Section: Working Papers
by K. C. Zachariah | On 08 Mar 2011 The paper is a study of the family suicide cases in Kerala. The aim of the study is to gather information about demographic details, method adopted and causes of suicides that happened in Kerala durin... Section: Reports
by K Praveenlal | On 16 Feb 2011 An
attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the financing pattern of
Indian corporate sector during 1990-2009. This paper further seeks to
identify the pattern of resource mobilisation of Ind... Section: Working Papers
by P L Beena | On 08 Jan 2011 The paper attempts to understand broadly the dynamics of rural livelihood diversification in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. This paper also throws up some issues, which one can delineate at micro-lev... Section: Working Papers
by Rajeev Sharma | On 20 Dec 2010 Assessments of the performance of Indian commercial banks are
not new in the literature. However, most of the earlier studies consider
relatively partial measures such as technical efficiency of the... Section: Working Papers
by Anup Kumar Bhandari | On 17 Nov 2010 This paper analyzes aspects of supply and demand for labour in India using National Sample Survey data for the years 1983, 1993-94, 1999-2000 and 2004-05. With the possibility of a ‘demographic divide... Section: Working Papers
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 30 Oct 2010 The corporate sector all over the world is restructuring its
operations through mergers and acquisitions in an unprecedented manner
in order to successfully overcome the challenges posed by globaliz... Section: Working Papers
by Beena Saraswathy | On 29 Oct 2010 A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian
Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers.
Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to... Section: Working Papers
by Vinoj Abraham | On 17 Sep 2010 In India, migration from rural areas is an important issue that is
gaining more significance year after year. Moreover, the extent, nature,
characteristics and pattern of migration have been evolvin... Section: Working Papers
by Vijay Korra | On 17 Jul 2010 Against the backdrop of financial liberalisation, this paper
examines India’s financial integration, both on the domestic and
international fronts. Preliminary analysis of the secondary data shows
... Section: Working Papers
by Gargi Sanati | On 29 Jun 2010 The Research Unit on International Migration at the Centre for
Development Studies undertook this study on the request of Department
of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs (NORKA), Government of Kerala.
... Section: Working Papers
by K. C. Zachariah | On 24 Jun 2010 China and India are definitely on a higher economic growth path,
although the contribution of technology to economic growth is still not
very clearly estimated. There is evidence to show that innova... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 21 May 2010 India is one among the few developing countries that have sought
to establish an aerospace industry. The industry has two components,
namely aeronautical and astronautic. The sectoral system
of inn... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 30 Apr 2010 Many rich countries provide special market access for exports from least developed countries (LDCs), but the trade preferences are often inhibited by tough restrictions and do not extend to the produc... Section: Reports
by Kimberly Ann Elliott | On 10 Apr 2010 This paper examines the trends and differentials in school educational
attainment in Kerala, the State that ranks right on top in terms of human
development in India. The trend analysis is based on... Section: Working Papers
by T.R. Dilip | On 02 Apr 2010 The present paper attempts to fill in
the gap that exists in the Indian Leather
industry, and makes some suggestions regarding the expansion of the by examining technical efficiency (TE) of individ... Section: Working Papers
by Anup Kumar Bhandari | On 26 Mar 2010 This
paper will focus on different instances of community assertions by the
Syrian Christians in twentieth century Travancore/Kerala. [Working Paper 427] Section: Working Papers
by J Devika | On 02 Mar 2010 A decade ago, the Centre for Development Studies started
migration research based on large-scale field surveys covering the whole
of Kerala State as a one-time study. However, it soon develo... Section: Working Papers
by Zachariah KC | On 01 Mar 2010 By virtue of the vital nature of electric power, both to our
economic and personal well being, a power system is expected to supply
electrical energy as economically as possible, and with a high deg... Section: Working Papers
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 22 Feb 2010 Given that the 74th amendment to the Indian Constitution stipulates
that the water supply service is to be transferred to the city/urban
governments this note analyses the institutional economics of... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Centre for Global Development | On 15 Feb 2010 The paper attempts to analyse the impact of devolution of taxes
and distribution grants by the Centre to the States in India by taking
fourteen major States for the time period 1980-81 to 2006-07. T... Section: Working Papers
by R Mohan | On 15 Dec 2009 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c... Section: Working Papers
by V. J. Varghese | On 01 Dec 2009 With the support of the labour geography framework, this study
tries to analyse how the economic geography of capitalism is shaped by
the spatial practices of labour. The model that is taken up is n... Section: Working Papers
by Neethi P | On 22 Oct 2009 This paper uses the most recent wave of Consumer Expenditure Survey 2004-05 to examine the distribution of Out of Pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in India. [WP 418]. Section: Working Papers
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Oct 2009 The purpose of the paper is first to quantify the extent of high
skilled migration from India and then to distil out two of its economic
implications to her home economy. [WP 416]. Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 17 Sep 2009 Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale
and attempts to understand gains accruing to individuals from migration,
in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analy... Section: Working Papers
by William Joe | On 16 Sep 2009 There is a strong feeling among especially the West that India is
becoming very innovative. The study will take the reader through the
empirical evidence on whether this is indeed the case since the... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 03 Sep 2009 This paper is about the financial lives of poor households. It
examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor
households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method... Section: Working Papers
by B. S. Suran | On 29 Jul 2009 This paper examines the levels, patterns, and determinants of
morbidity in Kerala. This study is based on a community survey
conducted in 2004, in three districts of the state namely
Thiruvananthap... Section: Working Papers
by Navaneetham K | On 14 Apr 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu... Section: Working Papers
by Arindam Banerjee | On 03 Mar 2009 The paper takes a critical look at the available
quantitative evidence on the growth of knowledge-intensive
entrepreneurship. It then looks at five facilitating factors for the
emergence of this ph... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 12 Feb 2009 The objective of this study is to report on the extent and nature of involvement of children in the coir industry. For this purpose, it was decided to study only those operations of the industry in w... Section: Working Papers
by Leela Gulati | On 24 Dec 2008 The history and evolution and the factors underlying the success of primary education in Kerala. [CDS WP 189]. Section: Working Papers
by P R Gopinathan Nair | On 10 Dec 2008 This preliminary report has been prepared with a view to assist the state government in understanding the implications of the crisis, so that appropriate policies and programmes could be chalked to de... Section: Reports
by Centre for Development Studies CDS | On 02 Dec 2008 The article explores the early transformation of Ayurveda into a) a
system of medicine, which has two components, one, a knowledge base
and two, institutionally recognized professionals b) an indust... Section: Working Papers
by M. S. Harilal | On 30 Nov 2008 The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment) and its implications on economic growth in India for the period from 1966-67 to... Section: Working Papers
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 01 Oct 2008 The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs
of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala .
The major concerns of this paper include answers to questio... Section: Working Papers
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Sep 2008 The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround
in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’.
Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide
... Section: Working Papers
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Aug 2008 The study examines the impact of aggregate government
expenditure and its two broader components such as revenue expenditure
and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian contex... Section: Working Papers
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 22 Jul 2008 This is an attempt to understand the characteristics of private
hospitals and the equity in accessing their services, using secondary data
available for the period 1986-2004. The data indicates that... Section: Working Papers
by T.R. Dilip | On 30 Jun 2008 This paper examines empirically within sustainable development
framework the dynamics of coverage in rural drinking water supply of
180 demand-driven schemes from Malappuram, predominantly a coastal... Section: Working Papers
by K Pushpangadan | On 27 Jun 2008 The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central
theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality... Section: Working Papers
by KK Subrahmanian | On 16 Jun 2008 The paper examines the effect of commodity market liberalisation on developing countries by taking the case of tropical products. This issue assumes importance in the context of developing countries c... Section: Working Papers
by Dhanya V | On 18 May 2008 Though the decade-long decentralization in Kerala has made
remarkable achievements in terms of consistent devolution of
financial resources, and improvement in the implementation of
poverty eradica... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Centre for Womens Development Studies | On 10 Mar 2008 This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this contex... Section: Working Papers
by Mohanan Pillai P | On 25 Feb 2008 This study analyses the implementation of housing schemes for
the poor through the Panchayats in Kasargod District of Kerala. It brings
to light the severity of the housing problem in this part of t... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Centre for Development Studies | On 06 Feb 2008 The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. T... Section: Working Papers
by K.N. Nair | On 31 Dec 2007 The results of the 2007 round of the Migration Monitoring Studies (MMS) being conducted periodically by the Centre for Development Studies. It covers three areas: migration, remittances and employment... Section: Working Papers
by Zachariah KC | On 09 Dec 2007 This paper investigates the relationship between the policy regime and growth during 1950-64 termed here ‘the Nehru era’. While there exist valuable early appraisals of the period, access to new data... Section: Working Papers
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 28 Nov 2007 The significance of international migration in the Philippines economy and society is discussed. The Government of Philippines plays a supportive and regulatory role promoting internationational migr... Section: Working Papers
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 19 Nov 2007 The various dimensions of livelihood risk as informed by a in-depth case study of an agrarian village namely, Cherumad in Kerala is examined. [WP no. 394]. Section: Working Papers
by K.N. Nair | On 06 Nov 2007 This study examines the impact of agrarian distress on the different socio-economic groups, the strategies of livelihood adopted by households and the local institution in shaping these strategies. Th... Section: Working Papers
by K.N. Nair | On 02 Nov 2007 A distinguishing aspect of the growth performance is that India now has five mobile phones for every one fixed telephone and the monthly additions to mobile subscribers are well over six million. Such... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 26 Sep 2007 Whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05 is examined. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the... Section: Working Papers
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 17 Sep 2007 An attempt is made at addressing the question about how has India fared in
terms of harnessing this technology for enhancing manufacturing productivity. issue by analyzing an unpublished data set on... Section: Working Papers
by K.J. Joseph | On 10 Sep 2007 This paper examines the effect of trade facilitated R&D spillovers
on the productivity of manufacturing firms in India. Though developing
countries are considered as the major beneficiaries of trade... Section: Working Papers
by M. Parameswaran | On 24 Jun 2007 The attempt is to draw upon public sphere debates in Malayalee society in the immediate post-independence decades, more specifically on speech and writing accruing around the distinctiveness of Malaya... Section: Working Papers
by J Devika | On 23 Jun 2007 Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method,... Section: Working Papers
by Zachariah KC | On 23 May 2007 In a context where despite high levels of literacy and economic independence, women in Kerala are still expected to conform to conservative standards of docility, obedience and family-oriented (at the... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Usha V.T. | On 19 Apr 2007 Various policies and programmes implemented avowedly for the benefits of the tribal people have resulted in alienation and degradation of tribesfolk. This detailed study of Kerala's Irular tribal comm... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Mariamma J. Kalathil | On 19 Apr 2007 The paper undertakes a detailed mapping out of the sectoral system of innovation of India's pharmaceutical industry. The industry is one of the most innovative industries in the Indian manufacturing s... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 15 Sep 2006 This article reflects on the effectiveness of trade liberalization, as
envisaged in the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of the WTO,
for promoting ICT use and production in developing countrie... Section: Working Papers
by K.J. Joseph | On 29 Jul 2006 This paper makes an attempt at illustrating the dynamics
of caste-based deprivation considering the case of child under-nutrition.
It essentially demonstrates the patterns of differentials in nutrit... Section: Working Papers
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 02 Jul 2006 The objective of this study is to analyze some of the recent reforms proposed in the operation of
government buffer stocks and provision of price support to wheat and rice farmers in India. Based o... Section: Policy Papers/Policy Briefs
by Shikha Jha | On 30 Jan 2006 Land Reforms Act in Kerala rendered tenancy invalid and prohibited the creation of future tenancies in the State, but tenancy very much exists. It is a consequence of the simultaneous increase in two... Section: Working Papers
by K.N. Nair | On 08 Nov 2005 The aim of this paper is to analyse India's anti dumping behaviour.
India has become a major user of anti dumping measures, initiating more
than 300 cases against many of its trading partners. After... Section: Working Papers
by Nandana Baruah | On 23 Oct 2005 Kerala has been a model to other states for her achievements in
social development. But in terms of economic growth her performance
has for long been very poor and a matter of deep concern. In this... Section: Working Papers
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 08 Oct 2005 This Working Paper is about the unemployment situation in Kerala.
It is based on the findings of the two Gulf Migration Studies, Kerala
Migration Study (KMS) and South Asia Migration Study (SMS),
c... Section: Working Papers
by K. C. Zachariah | On 27 Aug 2005 The study analyses whether the growing State Domestic Product
(SDP) of Kerala since the latter half of the 1980s, has acted as a larger
resource base for the State and finds that it has not. While... Section: Working Papers
by R. Mohan | On 08 Aug 2005 The emphasis on education assumes importance given the recent recognition of human capital, human rights and human development perspectives of development. Hence educational deprivation is recognized... Section: Working Papers
by M. Venkatnarayana | On 08 Jul 2005 The emphasis on education assumes importance given the recent
recognition of human capital, human rights and human development
perspectives of development. Hence educational deprivation is recognise... Section: Working Papers
by Mothuri Venkatanarayana | On 08 Jul 2005 China and India have one of the largest telecommunications equipment markets in the world. The paper employs a sectoral system of innovation framework towards understanding the differential outcomes i... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Jul 2005 Recent interest on rural industries derives from recognition of the
limits of agriculture and organised manufacturing sector in employment
generation especially during the post-liberalisation period... Section: Working Papers
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 01 Jun 2005 This paper analyses the determinants of fixed investment in the
Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing sector for the period 1973-2002,
using Annual Survey of Industries Data. It is argued that econ... Section: Working Papers
by V.R. Prabhakaran Nair | On 16 Mar 2005 Korea is one of the four from the developing world to have built
up substantial innovation capability in the design and manufacture of state-of-the-art telecommunications equipments. The paper undert... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Mar 2005 This study is an attempt to broaden the discussion about the prevention of domestic violence against women, informed by a rights based strategy. The study discusses the critical elements of a human ri... Section: Working Papers
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 01 Mar 2005 Based on field work in a village panchayat in Kerala, analyzing
the complex issues concerning the development and working of irrigation
institutions, the present study reveals that successful manage... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Vineetha Menon | On 27 Feb 2005 This paper takes advantage of the possibility of a critical perspective
afforded by the feminist perspective in analyzing the interactions between
political and civil societies in the shaping of spe... Section: Working Papers
by J Devika | On 01 Feb 2005 The present paper proposes certain statistical tests, both
conceptually simple and computationally easy, for analysing state-specific
prima facie probabilistic causality and error correction mechani... Section: Working Papers
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 01 Dec 2004 The paper focuses on the response strategies of public research
systems in various advanced developing countries (Brazil, India and
Korea) to specific challenges paused by increasing integration of... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Nov 2004 This paper examines the trends in Central finances over a threedecadal
period beginning from the 1970s. It is found that there is a lack of
buoyancy in all the major sources of revenue of the Centra... Section: Working Papers
by R Mohan | On 01 Nov 2004 In line with the perspectives of human capital, human development
and human rights, this paper conceives education to be the basic right of children and re-christens all children who are not in schoo... Section: Working Papers
by M. Venkatnarayana | On 26 Aug 2004 In the context of outbreaks of a number of water borne diseases in the thickly populated district of Kollam, especially duing the monsoons, this study was undertaken to assess the quality of drinking... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by M K P Roy | On 26 Jun 2004 Experiential knowledge is what indigenous knowledge is all about. Unfortunately again the Western intellectuals are reframing indigenous knowledge to suit their purposes. In the course of living with... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Jinan K.B. | On 21 Apr 2004 The privileging of internal resources over external finance is not
only the most democratic but also the most politically desirable option.
The implications of the ADB loan for Kerala is situated ag... Section: Working Papers
by K. Ravi Raman | On 09 Mar 2004 A price rise signifies a fall in purchasing power, if there is no
commensurate increase in income. Thus the pertinent question in the
face of the phenomenal rise during the 1990s in the prices of th... Section: Working Papers
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 01 Mar 2004 Launched in 1993 as a national initiative to achieve Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) through district-level intervention, the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) was started in... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Sreedevi K. Nair | On 01 Jan 2004 The focus of the paper is to review the Terms of Reference (TOR)
of the Twelfth Finance Commission with special reference to Kerala.
It also critically examines the emphasis on fiscal deficit reduct... Section: Working Papers
by K. P. Kannan | On 18 Dec 2003 From neutral trade policy devices employed to identity country
of origin of commodities, the rules of origin are emerging as protectionist
tools. Nation-states, as they are increasingly denied of co... Section: Working Papers
by K N Harilal | On 09 Dec 2003 The East Asian crisis of 1997-98 and the Mexican crisis of 1994
generated much concern among policy analysts regarding the role of
macroeconomic policies in the management of capital inflows. A seri... Section: Working Papers
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 14 Sep 2003 This paper examines the public health intervention of the
Rockefeller Foundation, one of the major ‘philanthropic’ organisations
in the world during the twentieth century, in the erstwhile princely... Section: Working Papers
by M. Kabir | On 07 Sep 2003 This paper is the product of an international research project of the
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and the Centre for Science and
Environme... Section: Working Papers
by John Kurien | On 07 Aug 2003 This paper is an attempt to analyse the tax leakage in the broader
context of fiscal crisis in Kerala, highlighting the relationship between
the two. Tax leakage by causing a revenue drain may adver... Section: Working Papers
by Rakhe PB | On 27 Jul 2003 Crop insurance is recognised to be a basic instrument for maintaining stability in farm income, through promoting technology, encouraging investment, and increasing credit flow in the agricultural sec... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Manoj Kumar K | On 26 Jun 2003 Irrespective of special incentives offered by the state, women enterprises encounter several problems. Often, women are merely fronts for men to obtain concessional credit, subsidies, and other
ince... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Nirmala D'Cruz | On 26 Jun 2003 Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female foeticide, female infanticide, abuse of the girl child, social harassment, mental... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by Celine Sunny | On 26 Jun 2003 This paper examines factors affecting literacy and access to school
education in West Bengal, India, and reports the results of a binomial
probit model estimated with primary data from ten villages... Section: Working Papers
by V. K. Ramachandran | On 16 Apr 2003 Using information on listed firms in each of the industry groups at
the two-digit level within Manufacturing this study investigates whether
the radical shift in trade policy in India in 1991 result... Section: Working Papers
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 09 Aug 2002 Age structural transition is a process and a consequence of shifting
age structure from a young aged population to old aged population. It is
well known that economic growth in the East Asian countr... Section: Working Papers
by K. Navaneetham | On 04 Aug 2002 The overall
effort of the paper is to highlight the ambiguities of ‘liberation’ in 20th
century Keralam and to problematise the tradition/modernity binary
that too often organises the writing of th... Section: Working Papers
by J Devika | On 02 Jul 2002 Analysis is made to the extent of barriers to entry in Indian manufacturing by empirically quantifying the height of these barriers. Econometric estimation of the height of the barriers for 1991 and 1... Section: Working Papers
by M Suresh Babu | On 28 Apr 2002 This paper is about the discursive aspects of reform debates, more
particularly about their rhetorical forms. In the debates on economic
reforms in India, communities of scholars seem to have been t... Section: Working Papers
by Achin Chakraborty | On 28 Apr 2002 This paper examines the evolution of the institution of ‘Welfare
Funds’ for informal sector workers in the State of Kerala in India. The
Kerala experience, which is now thirty years old, reflects wh... Section: Working Papers
by K. P. Kannan | On 25 Apr 2002 The paper argues that the formation of modern gender identities
in late 19th and early 20th Century Keralam was deeply implicated in
the project of shaping governable subjects who were, at the one... Section: Working Papers
by J. Devika | On 07 Apr 2002 This is the fourth in a series of Working Papers published by the
CDS on Kerala migration. Unlike the other three, this one is financed by
the Kerala Government and the data were collected in UAE.
... Section: Working Papers
by K. C. Zachariah | On 18 Mar 2002 An attempt is made to analyse the implications of the relationship between reliability and rationing cost involved in a power supply system in the framework of the standard inventory analysis, instead... Section: Working Papers
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 13 Mar 2002 Opposing views persist with regard to the emergence of plantations
in southern India and the transfer of slave labour to these plantations: the abolition of slavery as an end in itself and, second, a... Section: Working Papers
by K. Ravi Raman | On 08 Mar 2002 This paper attempts to construct a time series estimation of
remittances from abroad to the Kerala economy for the period 1972 to
2000. It is now widely acknowledged that foreign remittances in the
... Section: Working Papers
by K. P. Kannan | On 04 Mar 2002 An important requirement for the analysis of trade flows in relation
to domestic industrial structure is the availability of a database covering
information on trade flows, industry and firm charact... Section: Working Papers
by C. Veeramani | On 07 Nov 2001 The twentieth century has witnessed a process of significant transition of the Syrian Christian community in Kerala in terms of its demographic and socio-economic status. In this paper, the transitio... Section: Working Papers
by K.C. Zachariah | On 05 Nov 2001 This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in pr... Section: Working Papers
by John Kurien | On 14 Oct 2001 Given the manifold ways, in which the information technology could
contribute to human welfare, the developing countries have invested in
Information Technology (IT) as a short cut to prosperity. I... Section: Working Papers
by K.J. Joseph | On 01 Jul 2001 The economist’s conceptualisation of inequality in terms of
interpersonal distribution of income or wealth, and the tradition of
measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation ha... Section: Working Papers
by Achin Chakraborty | On 05 May 2001 Caesarean section rates have been increasing world-wide raising
the question of the appropriateness of the selection of cases for the
procedure. This paper examines the levels and correlates of deli... Section: Working Papers
by Udaya S Mishra | On 25 Mar 2001 This paper focuses on two aspects of India’s intra-industry trade
(IIT) in manufactured commodities under economic liberalization. First,
it examines the changes in the intensity of multilateral IIT... Section: Working Papers
by Veeramani C | On 05 Mar 2001 The present paper seeks to cast scepticism on the validity and value of the results of all earlier studies in India on energy demand analysis and forecasting based on time series regression, on three... Section: Working Papers
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 05 Feb 2001 The effects of the inflows of private foreign capital on some major macroeconomic variables in India are analyzed using quarterly data for the period 1993-99. Cointegration test and The Granger Causal... Section: Working Papers
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 11 Jan 2001 The study traces the trends in industrial growth against the backdrop of the overall economic growth in Kerala under the influence of the ongoing economic reforms and evaluates it against the performa... Section: Working Papers
by KK Subrahmanian | On 26 Nov 2000 This study examines the patterns and determinants of maternal health care use across different social setting in south India: in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Data source for... Section: Working Papers
by Navaneetham K | On 26 Oct 2000 Technological backwardness is a crucial fact of Kerala's industrial life. The major industries in Kerala, coir processing, handloom weaving, and beedi-making are marked by the use of low productive te... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by K.T. Rammohan | On 20 Oct 1999 In Kerala, malaria had been eradicated as early as in 1965. But imported malaria used to occur even thereafter; and indigenous malaria showed signs of resurgence from 1969 onwards. Recently an increas... Section: Kerala Studies Discussion Papers
by S.Rema Devi | On 26 Sep 1999 This paper examines regional heterogeneity both from statistical
and cartographic perspectives, using factor analysis of non-demographic
data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapp... Section: Working Papers
by Christophe Z. Guilmoto | On 11 Nov 1998 Ever since plantation agriculture initiated by European capital and enterprise became an important form of exploitation of resources in the colonies, small holdings and small holders in the plantation... Section: Working Papers
by Michael Tharakan | On 08 Nov 1998 The relative role of economic growth vis-a-vis public action in
raising living standards in developing countries has been a point of
contention for quite some time now. The arguments on both sides a... Section: Working Papers
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 12 Oct 1997 First, on the basis of primary data collected in a rural setting in the
State of Orissa, an attempt has been made in this paper to compare the
socioeconomic status of male- and female- headed househ... Section: Working Papers
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 10 Aug 1997 This paper investigates the effects of safe drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal diseases among children in rural Orissa. [Working Paer No. 278] Section: Working Papers
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 12 May 1997 Using a unique panel data set on Indian firms, some basic but important and often neglected aspects of technology licensing agreements and their effect on the licenses have been analysed. [Working Pap... Section: Working Papers
by Robert E Evenson | On 11 Mar 1997 Sen's concept of capabilities is rooted in welfare theory. For the development economist it has immediate, if somewhat lenuous, appeal on counts. First, the concept provides an ethical basis for evalu... Section: Working Papers
by G. Omkarnath | On 11 Mar 1997 Measuring well-being of an Individual based on his/her levels of functionings raises the following problem; Two vectors representing two individuals' achieved levels of functionings cannot be ranked u... Section: Working Papers
by Achin Chakraborty | On 21 Dec 1996 Based on a multi-sited based ethnography conducted during August 95 through February 96 in two inland tribal regions of Orissa the study tries to identify temporal and spatial specifications in terms... Section: Working Papers
by Srijit Mishra | On 08 Dec 1996 Early writers on fertility decline (Thompson 1929; Davis 1945 1955 1963; Notestein 1945; Feedman 1961-62) emphasized broad forces of modernization, such as urbanization, industridiization, shi... Section: Working Papers
by D. Narayana | On 21 Oct 1996 Early writers on fertility decline (Thompson 1929; Davis 1945 1955 1963; Notestein 1945; Feemdman 1961 -62) emphasized broad forces of modernization, such as urbanization, industrialization... Section: Working Papers
by D. Narayana | On 15 Oct 1996 Since the early nineties the Indian economy has been subjected to a process of stabilization-cum-structural adjustment. Stabilization involves short-term demand management through monetary and fiscal... Section: Working Papers
by K.J. Joseph | On 28 Jun 1996 It is in the early 1990s that we come across studies on some Third World cities that have begun to address the question of land affordability for housing purposes in greater details than what have bee... Section: Working Papers
by ., Amitabh | On 28 Mar 1996 Considerations of credit mechanism as a suitable mode of appropriation of
surplus, compared to rent, explains to a great extent the motivation, behind state
intervention in the money market in pea... Section: Working Papers
by T.T. Sreekumar | On 04 Dec 1995 An efficient and equitable rate structure for drinking water based on a modified version of Coase two-part tariff is developed and estimated for an urban water supply scheme in Kerala State, India... Section: Working Papers
by G. Murugan | On 04 Dec 1994 The past three decades have witnessed the growth of a voluminous literature on
tenancy arid reIated institutions. Problems of resource use efficiency, role of markets, inter-linkages between markets... Section: Working Papers
by D. Narayana | On 04 May 1994 Most are born into a religion, some acquire a religious identity; and unfortunate view have religion thrust upon them. While the first of these statements is an objective fact the latter two raises qu... Section: Working Papers
by Dilip M. Menon | On 29 Jan 1994 Apart from the episode of the mid-sixties, macroeconomic crises
have not played a major part in India's economic development. A
certain sort of stability had accompanied the lack-lustre grow... Section: Working Papers
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 23 Nov 1993 In recent years perhaps in a un-precendented fashion development relating to India's external sector have captured the undivided attention of domestic as well as foreign observers. In India considerab... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 03 Aug 1993 A major drawback of the plethora of regional studies in India is that most of them tend to treat regional development as an autonomous process of regional productive forces and relations of production... Section: Working Papers
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 15 Oct 1992 A review of the literature on industrial growth in India, bows that barring a few studies [e.g.,Raj (1976,1984), Shetty (1978)], Industrial growth has been interpreted by merely fitting statistical m... Section: Working Papers
by R. Anandaraj | On 29 Apr 1992 The movement of terms of trade would determine the real wins from trade given a historically chosen path of regional specialisation. Kerela economy specialises in a variety of export oriented commerci... Section: Working Papers
by Thomas Isaac | On 02 Mar 1992 Kerela is a region that is deeply integrated with the Indian and the world economy through various ways such as commodity flows, financial movements, labour migration and operations of national and in... Section: Working Papers
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 01 Mar 1992 The present exercise is primarily exploratory in nature; it does not attempt to provide a comprehensive explanation of the dynamics of land distribution. The conclusions drawn are primary and tentativ... Section: Working Papers
by K.N. Nair | On 16 Jan 1992 The role of the state in industrialisation is a much discussed topic these days. Specifically this role has witnessed itself in the form of direct intervention by the states through owning the means... Section: Working Papers
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Nov 1991 Most Governments in the Third World Countries have actively promoted cooperatives in the traditional sectors of the economy with a view to overcome the diseconomies of small size. Characterised as the... Section: Working Papers
by Mridul Eapen | On 27 Sep 1991 The wage rate in s casual labour market, paddy field labour, is estimated from a reduced form version of a supply and demand model after incorporating literacy, caste and the degree of m... Section: Working Papers
by K. Pushpangadan | On 27 Jan 1991 The growth of government financial institutions in India both in terms of number of branches and quantum of credit has been impressive, especially in the post-blank nationalisation period. [Working Pa... Section: Working Papers
by D. Rajasekhar | On 23 Jun 1988 A key queestion is:
which groups should receive priority in a situation of constrained
resources? Ideally the twin dangers of leaving out malnourished
groups from the purview of the policy, and cov... Section: Working Papers
by Gopalakrishna Kumar | On 16 Aug 1987 Tapioca in grown in India for a number of years and its origin is traced back to either Brazil from where it was introduced by Portuguese during the 17th Century or brought from South America in 1840.... Section: Working Papers
by P.S. George | On 18 Jun 1987 This paper attempts to survey the published literature on agricultural development of Kerala covering a period between 1800 AD and 1980 AD. The Survey covers both academic studies as well as governme... Section: Working Papers
by B.A. Prakash | On 18 Jun 1987 The pharmaceutical industry in India has provoked much debate and sharp criticism, on account of its insensitivity towards the health needs of the Indian people. The vulnerability of the indu... Section: Working Papers
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 20 Apr 1987 The relative industrial backwardness of Kerela is a problem of very wide concern among scholars as well as administrators and political activities in the state. The contribution of the industrial sect... Section: Working Papers
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 31 May 1986 This working paper discusses the rice economy of Kerala, with a disaggregate analysis of its performance. [Working Paper No. 231] Section: Working Papers
by P.S. George | On 31 Jan 1986 The objective of this paper is to give a rigorous and systematic conceptualization of Labour process which could provide a definite view point or approach to the study of evolution of social technolog... Section: Working Papers
by D. Narayana | On 24 Aug 1981 This paper is all about speculations on growth, disparity and Capital reorganisation in Indian Economy. [Working Paper No. 124] Section: Working Papers
by Sudipto Mundle | On 06 Feb 1981 The importance of an 'agricultural surplus' for the structural transformation accompanying economic growth is often stressed in development literature. 'Agricultural surplus', defined as the physical... Section: Working Papers
by Ashoka Mody | On 21 Jan 1981 The paper gives us a study about a village Iruvelippatu, Tamil NaduSome features of agrarian economies have also been studied. [WP No. 42]. Section: Working Papers
by K N Raj | On 03 Nov 1976 This paper describes the so-called technical relations in agriculture. [Working Paper No. 35] URL: [http://www.cds.edu/] Section: Working Papers
by Krishna Bharadwaj | On 11 Jun 1976 The linear expenditure system developed by Stone (1954) is an extremely useful tool of demand analysis. Its applicability appears to be restricted however by somewhat computations suggested so far in... Section: Working Papers
by N. Krishnaji | On 16 Feb 1976 The most important section of the educated job seekers in the State of Kerala consists of those with educational attainment ranging from matriculation to the graduate level. As on 30th June,1973,this... Section: Working Papers
by Chandan Mukherjee | On 10 Oct 1975 The need to bring down the cost of construction of buildings in India has recently been receiving a lot of attention; there seems to be a general agreement that clients -whether private or Government... Section: Working Papers
by R.J.S. Spence | On 29 Sep 1975 This paper is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost - benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [WP No. 30]. Section: Working Papers
by K P Kannan | On 21 Sep 1975 This pager is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost-benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [Working Paper No. 030] Section: Working Papers
by K. P. Kannan | On 10 Sep 1975 The quantitative and qualitative changes taking place in livestock population over the years would be due to the changes in demand for livestock products. The changes in lives... Section: Working Papers
by K. Narayanan Nair | On 16 Aug 1975 This paper attempts an economic evaluation of the Kuttanad
Development Project (henceforth referred to as KDP) whioh is part of
an overall programme of the Government of Kerala to augment the
Produ... Section: Working Papers
by K. P. Kannan | On 07 Jun 1975 For studying the analytical characteristics of a distribution, ideally one should have a random sample of observations from the corresponding population. Such a sample makes it possible for us to di... Section: Working Papers
by N. Krishnaji | On 07 Feb 1974 The rapid decline in mortality rates, rendered possible by the
spread of modern medicine and public health services, and the high
and unchanging fertility rates are generally considered portents... Section: Working Papers
by P R Gopinathan Nair | On 07 Feb 1974 The implications of removing some of the restrictive assumptions of a model of semi-feudalism formulated by A.Bhaduri are examined. [WP no. 16]. Section: Working Papers
by N. Krishnaji | On 10 Nov 1973 Extension of the wealth tax to agriculture, it will be
recalled, was opposed on the ground that it would hurt even the
small and medium-sized farmers. This argument was advanced... Section: Working Papers
by K. N. Raj | On 01 Mar 1973 Marx himself certainly thought that political economy was a subject of most urgent importance for a "theoretician of the revolutionary proletariat". Marx took over the orthodox theory of his day accor... Section: Working Papers
by Joan Robinson | On 16 Feb 1973 Economic development brings about, with rising national product and income per capita, certain broad changes in the structure of production and industrial distribution of the working force. It has lo... Section: Working Papers
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 10 Feb 1973 A considerable proportion of the Indian population is generally believed to suffer from under-nutrition and malnutrition. The proportion of India's population falling below the minimum level of nutrit... Section: Working Papers
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Dec 1972 This paper is a look at the food balance sheet of Kerela, the extent of undernutrition and malnutrition in Kerela. For ths purpose, 57 items of food normally available in the State were taken into acc... Section: Working Papers
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Oct 1972 The main attention on the food front in lndia ts five
year plans has been focused on the question of under nutrition
rather than malnutrition. This pre occupation with the quanti... Section: Working Papers
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 01 Nov 1971 This paper takes a look at the women urban industrial labour force in India. [Working Paper No. 127] Section: Working Papers
by Leela Gulati | On 24 May 1961 The notion that the backwardness of Indian Agriculture may be explained in terms of the institutional, and more particularly, the market structure within its functions, is not wholly novel one, elemen... Section: Working Papers
by Sumit Guha | On 20 Sep 1950 |