Centre for Development Studies (Kerala, India): Recent submissions
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Coping with globalisation : public R&D projects in telecommunications technologies in developing countries
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 their respective host ... -
Gulf revisited economic consequences of emigration from Kerala : emigration and unemployment
(Centre for Development Studies, 2004)This Working Paper is about Videsha Malayalikal, or Non-Resident Keralites (NRKs). It provides the size, trend, geographical distribution, socio-economic composition of migrants, and remittances sent back by the migrants. ... -
Educational deprivation of children in Andhra Pradesh : levels and trends, disparities and associative factors
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 school including child ... -
On the non-random distribution of educational deprivation of children in India
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 recognised as the primary agent ... -
Organisational morphology of rural industries in liberalised India : a study of West Bengal
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 in India. Historically, ... -
Keeping pace with globalisation innovation capability in Korea's telecommunications equipment industry
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 undertakes a detailed ... -
Determinants of fixed investment : a study of Indian private corporate manufacturing sector
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 economic policy of a ... -
Modernity with democracy? : gender and governance in the People's Planning Campaign, Keralam
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 specific developmental ... -
Development as a right to freedom : an interpretation of the 'Kerala Model'
(Centre for Development Studies, 2004)Our objectives in this paper are two-fold: an interpretation of the conception of poverty in its multidimensional existence and an explanation in this light of the development experiences of the State of Kerala in ... -
CES function, generalised mean and Human Poverty Index : exploring some links
(Centre for Development Studies, 2004)The Sennian capability approach has facilitated to capture poverty in its multi-dimensional incidence and thus to raise a new aggregate poverty index – the UNDP's Human Poverty Index (HPI). The UNDP has found power mean ... -
Women and work mobility : some disquieting evidences from the Indian data
(Centre for Development Studies, 2004)In this paper we have attempted to raise an issue which has always concerned feminist scholars- the sex segregation of jobs and its perpetuation over time to the disadvantage of women workers, in the context of the ... -
The Asian Development Bank loan for Kerala (India) : the adverse implications and search for alternatives
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 against this premise ... -
Liberalisation of rural poverty : the Indian experience
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 the food articles, which ... -
India's twelfth finance commission : a view from Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)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 reduction without paying ... -
The WTO agreement on rules of origin : implications for South Asia
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 conventional trade ... -
Drinking water and well-being in India : data envelopment analysis
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)The study examines the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for the estimation of the well being from drinking water using ‘commodities and capabilities’ approach. DEA uses the general purpose linear programme version ... -
Liberalization of capital inflows and the real exchange rate in India : a VAR analysis
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 series of economic reform ... -
Beyond philanthropy : the Rockefeller Foundation's public health intervention in Thiruvithamkoor, 1929-1939
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 state of Thiruvithamkoor, ... -
The blessing of the commons : small-scale fisheries, community property rights, and coastal natural assets
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)The first part of this paper describes the nature of the oceans and human use of the living natural assets therein. It discusses the technology and institutional arrangements through which coastal communities interacted ... -
Rural industrialisation in Kerala : re-examining the issue of rural growth linkages
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)The main purpose of our paper is to re-examine the role of linkages in a process of rural industrialisation (RI) deriving from the field experience in two purposively selected, newly emerging areas of industrial growth ...