• Lease farming in Kerala: findings from micro level studies 

  Nair, K.N.; Menon, Vineetha (Centre for Development Studies2005-11Trivandrum, 2005-11)

  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 categories of people, ...
• Anti dumping duty as a measure of contingent protection: an analysis of Indian experience 

  Baruah, Nandana (Centre for Development Studies2005-10Trivandrum, 2005-10)

  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 looking at the trends ...
• Long term trends in the growth and structure of the net state domestic product in Kerala 

  Pillai, P. Mohanan; Shanta, N. (Centre for Development Studies2005-10Trivandrum, 2005-10)

  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 context the turnaround ...
• Taxing powers and developmental role of the Indian states: a study with reference to Kerala 

  Mohan, R.; Shyjan, D. (Centre for Development Studies2005-08Trivandrum, 2005-08)

  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 the inability to fully ...
• Unemployment in Kerala at the turn of the century insights from CDS gulf migration studies 

  Zachariah, K. C.; Rajan, S. Irudaya (Centre for Development Studies2005-08Trivandrum, 2005-08)

  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), conducted by the authors ...
• The dragon vs. the elephant comparative analysis of innovation capability in the telecommunications equipment industry in china and India 

  Mani, Sunil (Centre for Development Studies2005-07Trivandrum, 2005-07)

  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 in innovation ...
• On the non-random distribution of educational deprivation of children in India 

  Venkatanarayana, Motkuri (Centre for Development Studies2005-07Trivandrum, 2005-07)

  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 

  Maiti, Dibyendu S. (Centre for Development Studies2005-06Trivandrum, 2005-06)

  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 

  Mani, Sunil (Centre for Development Studies2005-03Trivandrum, 2005-03)

  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 

  Nair, V.R. Prabhakaran (Centre for Development Studies2005-03Trivandrum, 2005-03)

  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 

  Devika, J. (Centre for Development Studies2005-02Trivandrum, 2005-02)

  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 ...
• Dynamics of irrigation institutions: case study of a village panchayat in Kerala 

  Menon, Vineetha; Paul, Antonyto; Nair, K N (Centre for Development Studies2005-02Trivandrum, 2005-02)

  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 management of irrigation ...
• Causality and error correction in markov chain: inflation in India revisited 

  N., Vijayamohanan Pillai (Centre for Development Studies2004-12Trivandrum, 2004-12)

  The present paper proposes certain statistical tests, both conceptually simple and computationally easy, for analysing state-specific prima facie probabilistic causality and error correction mechanism in the context of ...
• Central finances in India - alternative to procrustean fiscal correction 

  Mohan, R. (Centre for Development Studies2004-11Trivandrum, 2004-11)

  This paper examines the trends in Central finances over a threedecadal period beginning from the 1970s. It is found that there is lack of buoyancy in all the major sources of revenue of the Central Government. This calls ...
• Coping with globalisation public R&D projects in telecommunications technologies in developing countries 

  Mani, Sunil (Centre for Development Studies2004-11Trivandrum, 2004-11)

  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 

  Zachariah, K C; Rajan, S Irudaya (Centre for Development Studies2004-09Trivandrum, 2004-09)

  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 

  Venkatanarayana, M. (Centre for Development Studies2004-08Trivandrum, 2004-08)

  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 ...
• Development as a right to freedom: an interpretation of the ‘Kerala model’ 

  Kannan, K. P.; N., Vijayamohanan Pillai (Centre for Development Studies2004-08Trivandrum, 2004-08)

  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 

  N., Vijayamohanan Pillai (Centre for Development Studies2004-07Trivandrum, 2004-07)

  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 ...
• Shifting the ground of fatherhood: matriliny, men and marriage in early twentieth century Malabar 

  Kodoth, Praveena (Centre for Development Studies2004-05Trivandrum, 2004-05)

  Central to the project of comprehensive reform of matriliny in early twentieth century Malabar was the affirmation of the conjugal bond as the principal property/material relation between men and women and parents (fathers) ...

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