Centre for Development Studies (Kerala, India): Recent submissions
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Pricing with changing welfare criterion : an application of Ramsey-Wilson model to urban water supply
(Centre for Development Studies, 1998)Tariff rates based on Ramsey - Wilson model of changing welfare criterion satisfying equity and efficiency have been estimated for three categories of consumers of an urban water supply in India. The design necessitates ... -
The irrelevance of methodology and the art of the possible : reading Sen and Hirschman
(Centre for Development Studies, 1998)Economic methodologists have observed that economists do not practice what they think their methodology is. Two positions follow from this. One insists on the need for ‘better’ practice in maintaining ‘scientific’ standard, ... -
Imagining women's social space in early modern Keralam
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 and same time, ‘free’ ... -
Kerala's gulf connection : emigration, remittances and their macroeconomic impact, 1972-2000
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 economy of the State ... -
Bondage in freedom : colonial plantations in southern India, c. 1797-1947
(Centre for Development Studies, 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, as a means to an end. ... -
Gulf migration study : employment, wages and working conditions of Kerala emigrants in the United Arab Emirates
(Centre for Development Studies, 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. The objectives of this ... -
Reliability and rationing cost in a power system
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)The present paper attempts 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 of the ... -
The aetiology of the inefficiency syndrome in the Indian power sector : main issues and conclusions of a study
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Inefficiency and institutional issues in the provision of merit goods : a case study of public water supply in rural Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 1998)This paper discusses the issues of inefficiency in the provision of merit goods, taking the case of public water supply in rural Kerala. The analysis has identified two source of inefficiency in the provision of merit ... -
The effects of safe drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal diseases among children in rural Orissa
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Living arrangements of the elderly in rural Orissa
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Institutional lock-in in natural resource management : the case of water resources in Kerala
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Capabilities and the process of development
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User financing and collective action relevance for sustainable rural water supply in India
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Foreign technology licensing in Indian Industry : an econometric analysis of the choice of partners, terms of contract and the effect on licensees' performance
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Divestment and public sector enterprise reforms : Indian experience since 1991
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Production and grain drain in two inland regions of Orissa
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On the possibility of a weighting system for functionings
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Import and domestic production of capital goods : from substitution to complementarity
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Asian fertility transition : is gender equity in formal occupation an explanatory factor?
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