Centre for Development Studies (Kerala, India): Recent submissions
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Family structure, women's education and work : re-examining the high status of women in Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)Literacy, together with non-domestic employment, which gave women access to independent sources of income, have been regarded as important indicators of women’s ‘status’, which affected fertility and mortality outcomes. ... -
Domesticating Malayalees : family planning, the nation and home-centered anxieties in mid-20th century Keralam
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)The paper tries to unsettle the naturalized association often assumed in the existent literature between the modern family and the small family in 20th century Malayalee society. Instead, it attempts to trace out the ... -
Economic reforms and technical efficiency : firm level evidence from selected industries in India
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)This paper analyses the performance of the manufacturing firms in some selected industries in terms of their technical efficiency against the background of the industrial and trade policy reforms introduced in India ... -
Framing custom, directing practices : authority, property and matriliny under colonial law in nineteenth century Malabar
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)Colonial judges and jurists interpreted matrilineal customs in terms of a theory of matrilineal law, which they shaped in the process of interpretation, rather than on the basis of existing practices. This paper analyses ... -
Age structural transition and economic growth : evidence from South and Southeast Asia
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 countries was significantly ... -
Trade liberalisation, market power and scale efficiency in Indian industry
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)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 resulted in a reduction in ... -
Family planning as 'liberation' : the ambiguities of 'emancipation from biology' in Keralam
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)In the early debates on the desirability of artificial birth control in Malayalee society, artificial birth control was often opposed on the grounds that it undercut some of the crucial conditions for the ushering in ... -
Economic reforms and industrial performance : an analysis of capacity utilisation in Indian manufacturing
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)This paper examines the performance of Indian manufacturing sector in terms of economic capacity utilization (CU), over 1974-1998. An attempt is also made to understand the impact of policy changes, inter alia, on the ... -
Social returns from drinking water, sanitation and hygiene education : a case study of two coastal villages in Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)Social returns from investing in water supply, sanitation and hygiene education (WATSANGENE) have been estimated from the UNICEF model of water supply, sanitation and hygiene after modifying it using Sen’s commodities ... -
The welfare fund model of social security for informal sector workers : the Kerala experience
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 what the workers in the ... -
Economic reforms and entry barriers in Indian manufacturing
(Centre for Development Studies, 2002)Institutional regulations by way of licensing and capacity restrictions have often been considered as barriers to competition in Indian industry. As most of these regulations have given way for market signals an increase ... -
Estimation of tax leakage and its impact on fiscal health in Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 adversely affect the primary ... -
A contribution to peak load pricing : theory and application
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)The present paper attempts at a contribution to peak load pricing, in both theory and application. The general result from the traditional theory that charges the off-peak consumers marginal operating costs only and the ... -
Barriers to expansion of mass literacy and primary schooling in West Bengal : a study based on primary data from selected villages
(Centre for Development Studies, 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 of West Bengal. In ... -
Rights-based strategies in the prevention of domestic violence
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)This study is an attempt to broaden the discussion about the prevention of domestic violence against women informed by a rightsbased strategy. Specifically, the study discusses the critical elements of a human rights ... -
Remittances, consumption and economic growth in Kerala : 1800-2000
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)Kerala’s lopsided development, human development before economic development, has been characterized by steady economic growth since 80s with acceleration in the 90s. The leading sources of growth are the services ... -
Why is the credit-deposit ratio low in Kerala?
(Centre for Development Studies, 2003)The low credit-deposit ratio of the scheduled commercial banks in Kerala has been a subject of intense debate during the last decade or so. Periodically, the state government would raise the issue, lash out at the ... -
Time and cost over-runs of the power projects in Kerala
(Centre for Development Studies, 2001)Delays in project implementation and the attendant cost overruns have been a regular feature in the electric power sector in Kerala. Almost all the public projects, including the prestigious major hydroelectric project ... -
Return emigrants in Kerala : rehabilitation problems and development potential
(Centre for Development Studies, 2001)This research report is aimed at three aspects of return emigrants in Kerala – their occupational mobility, utilisation of their human and material resources in Kerala’s development and their rehabilitation. It describes ... -
Social security nets for marine fisheries : the growth and changing composition of social security programmes in the fisheries sector of Kerala State, India
(Centre for Development Studies, 2001)Social Security is achieved when deprivation or vulnerability is reduced or removed as a result of using social means, thereby, in the process, making lives and livelihoods more secure. However, provision of such social ...