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Economic reforms, capital inflows and macro economic impact in India

Chakraborty, Indrani (Centre for Development Studies2001-01Trivandrum, 2001-01)

The study attempts to explain the effects of inflows of private foreign capital on some major macroeconomic variables in India using quarterly data for the period 1993-99. The analyses of trends in private foreign capital ...
Electricity demand analysis and forecasting – the tradition is questioned!

Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan (Centre for Development Studies2001-02Trivandrum, 2001-02)

The present paper seeks to cast scepticism on the validity and value of the results of all earlier studies in India on energy demand analysis and forecasting based on time series regression, on three grounds. (i) As these ...
Delivery complications and determinants of caesarean section rates in India - an analysis of national family health surveys, 1992-'93

Mishra, U. S.; Ramanathan, Mala (Centre for Development Studies2001-03Trivandrum, 2001-03)

Caesarean section rates have been increasing world-wide raising the question of the appropriateness of the selection of cases for the procedure. This paper examines the levels and correlates of delivery related complications ...
India's intra-industry trade under economic liberalization: trends and country specific factors

C, Veeramani (Centre for Development Studies2001-03Trivandrum, 2001-03)

This paper focuses on two aspects of India’s intra-industry trade (IIT) in manufactured commodities under economic liberalization. First, it examines the changes in the intensity of multilateral IIT as between 1987-88, ...
The concept and measurement of group inequality

Chakraborty, Achin (Centre for Development Studies2001-05Trivandrum, 2001-05)

The economist’s conceptualisation of inequality in terms of interpersonal distribution of income or wealth, and the tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate ...
The political economy of public utilities a study of the Indian power sector

Kannan, K. P.; Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan (Centre for Development Studies2001-06Trivandrum, 2001-06)

In this paper, we attempt at an analysis of the political economy of the Indian power sector with special reference to Kerala in the light of a generic model of the political economy of public utilities we develop in the ...
India's it export boom: challenges ahead

Joseph, K. J.; Harilal, K. N. (Centre for Development Studies2001-07Trivandrum, 2001-07)

Given the manifold ways, in which the information technology could contribute to human welfare, the developing countries have invested in Information Technology (IT) as a short cut to prosperity. India too has not ...
Return emigrants in Kerala: rehabilitation problems and development potential

Zachariah, K. C.; Nair, P. R. Gopinathan; Rajan, S. Irudaya (Centre for Development Studies2001-10Trivandrum, 2001-10)

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

Kurien, John; Paul, Antonyto (Centre for Development Studies2001-10Trivandrum, 2001-10)

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 ...
Time and cost over-runs of the power projects in Kerala

Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan; Kannan, K. P. (Centre for Development Studies2001-10Trivandrum, 2001-10)

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 ...
The syrian christians of Kerala: demographic and socioeconomic transition in the twentieth century

Zachariah, K.C. (Centre for Development Studies2001-11Trivandrum, 2001-11)

The twentieth century has witnessed a process of significant transition of the Syrian Christian community in Kerala in terms of its demographic and socio-economic status. In this paper, the transition of the demographic ...
Analysing trade flows and industrial structure of India: the question of data harmonisation

C, Veeramani (Centre for Development Studies2001-11Trivandrum, 2001-11)

An important requirement for the analysis of trade flows in relation to domestic industrial structure is the availability of a database covering information on trade flows, industry and firm characteristics. Such ...
How have hired workers fared? A case study of women workers from an Indian village, 1977 to 1999

Ramachandran, V. K.; Swaminathan, Madhura; Rawal, Vikas (Centre for Development Studies2001-12Trivandrum, 2001-12)

This paper examines certain aspects of employment among women workers in hired labour households, drawing on two surveys of Gokilapuram, a village in south-west Tamil Nadu, India, conducted in 1977 and 1999. The study ...
Gulf migration study: employment, wages and working conditions of Kerala emigrants in the United Arab Emirates

Zachariah, K. C.; Prakash, B.A.; Rajan, S. Irudaya (Centre for Development Studies2002-03Trivandrum, 2002-03)

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 ...
The Aetiology of the inefficiency syndrome in the Indian power sector main issues and conclusions of a study

Kannan, K. P.; Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan (Centre for Development Studies2002-03Trivandrum, 2002-03)

The present study is an attempt at a detailed diagnosis of the accumulated inefficiency in the Indian power sector, the consequent reform drives, and the political economy involved in these aspects. The discussion in ...
Reliability and rationing cost in a power system

Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan (Centre for Development Studies2002-03Trivandrum, 2002-03)

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 ...
Kerala's gulf connection emigration, remittances and their macroeconomic impact 1972-2000

Kannan, K P; Hari, K S (Centre for Development Studies2002-03Trivandrum, 2002-03)

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

Raman, K.Ravi (Centre for Development Studies2002-03Trivandrum, 2002-03)

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. ...
Imagining women's social space in early modern Keralam

Devika, J. (Centre for Development Studies2002-04Trivandrum, 2002-04)

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’ ...
The welfare fund model of social security for informal sector workers the Kerala experience

Kannan, K. P. (Centre for Development Studies2002-04Trivandrum, 2002-04)

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 ...

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