Centre for Development Studies (Kerala, India): Recent submissions
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Peasant classes, farm incomes and rural indebtedness : an analysis of household production data from two states
(Centre for Development Studies, 2009)The crisis and stagnation in Indian agriculture have persisted for over a decade and are not showing any signs of reversal. Falling real product prices faced by primary commodity producers have been one of the central ... -
The growth of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in India, 1991-2007 : analysis of its evidence and the facilitating factors
(Centre for Development Studies, 2009)There has been a marked improvement in India's overall economic performance since 1991. One of the outcomes of this improved performance is the growth of innovations in the country. This was accompanied by or caused by ... -
Home to market : responses, resurgence and transformation of Ayurveda from 1830s to 1920
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 industry, producing traditional ... -
Do remittances impact the economy? : some empirical evidences from a developing economy
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 2003-04. Estimating ... -
Costs of basic services in Kerala, 2007 : education, health, childbirth and finance (loans)
(Centre for Development Studies, 2008)This Working Paper focuses on the pattern and costs of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala. The major concerns of this Working Paper include answers to questions such as: How much ... -
Financing of industrial innovations in India : how effective are tax incentives for R&D?
(Centre for Development Studies, 2008)The paper surveys the instruments that are available for innovation financing in India. It identifies three such instruments, namely research grants and loans, venture capital and tax incentives. The effectiveness of all ... -
Employment growth in rural India : distress driven?
(Centre for Development Studies, 2008)Abstract: 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 spread ... -
Government spending, trade openness and economic growth in India : a time series analysis
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 context along with other ... -
Dynamics of rural water supply in coastal Kerala : a sustainable development view
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 district of Kerala ... -
Dynamics of rural water supply in coastal Kerala : a sustainable development view
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 district of Kerala ... -
Agrarian distress and rural livelihoods : a study in Upputhara Panchayat, Idukki District, Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 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. The study is based ... -
Visible hand : public policy and economic growth in the Nehru era
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 and fresh information ... -
The growth performance of India's telecommunications services industry, 1991-2006 : can it lead to the emergence of a domestic manufacturing hub?
(Centre for Development Studies, 2007)India’s economy is much more integrated with rest of the world now than it was in 1991. Several factors have facilitated this, some fiscal and some physical. One of the most important physical factors is the spectacular ... -
Information technology and productivity : evidence from India's manufacturing sector
(Centre for Development Studies, 2007)While India's remarkable performance in IT software and service exports may be inspirational for other Indian industries and more so for other countries in the south, the moot question is how has India fared in terms ... -
Does energy consumption fuel economic growth in India?
(Centre for Development Studies, 2007)The paper examines whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the economic ... -
Public investment and agricultural productivity : a state-wise analysis of foodgrains in India
(Centre for Development Studies, 2007)The main objective of the study is to examine the long-run relationship between public investment and foodgrain productivity across the fifteen major states of India. The analysis is confined to the period, 1974-’75 to ... -
'A people united in development' : developmentalism in modern Malayalee identity
(Centre for Development Studies, 2007)The desire for ‘Development’ — often defined vaguely, working as a catch-all term for economic growth, social welfare, and socialistic redistribution of resources— has been intimately linked to the construction of the ... -
International trade, R&D spillovers and productivity : evidence from Indian manufacturing industry
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 facilitated R&D ... -
Economic and social dynamics of migration in Kerala, 1999-2004 : analysis of panel data
(Centre for Development Studies, 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, however, was used ... -
The sectoral system of innovation of Indian pharmaceutical industry
(Centre for Development Studies, 2006)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 sector. The innovation ...