• International Monetary System Response of Developing Countries to Its Shortcomings 

  Agarwal, Manmohan (Centre for Development Studies2015-12Trivandrum, 2015-12)

  Accumulation of reserves by developing countries to avoid borrowing from the IMF with whose governance and policies they are dissatisfied helped developing countries cope with the 2008 financial crisis. But it is argued ...
• Structural Change in the Indian Economy 

  Agarwal, Manmohan; Ghosh, Sunandan (Centre for Development Studies2015-11Trivandrum, 2015-11)

  We analyse the evolution of the Indian economy over the past six decades, particularly identifying structural breaks. We find that usually there has been a gradual change in the indicators of the economy .The growth ...
• Determinants of Industrial Disputes: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry 

  Parameswaran, M. (Centre for Development Studies2015-11Trivandrum, 2015-11)

  This paper examines the determinants of industrial disputes in Indian manfuacturing industry. The study is in the context of drastic decline in the number and intensity of industrial disputes in India. Compared to the ...
• Dynamics of Emigration and Remittances in Kerala: Results from the Kerala Migration Survey 2014 

  Zachariah, K. C.; Irudaya Rajan, S. (Centre for Development Studies2015-09Trivandrum, 2015-09)
• Welfare Comparisons with Multidimensional Well-Being Indicators: An Indian Illustration 

  Mishra, Udaya S; Shukla, Vachaspati (Centre for Development Studies2015-05Trivandrum, 2015-05)

  Problem of making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well-being indicators are well known. Application of a weighting scheme remains a convenient alternative for aggregating across ...
• Reflections on India’s Emergence in the World Economy 

  Ray, Amit S; Ghosh, Sunandan (Centre for Development Studies2015-05Trivandrum, 2015-05)

  This paper attempts to capture how India embraced the world economy against the backdrop of the evolving domestic and international economic policy environment. We begin with a brief overview of the evolution of India’s ...
• Global Imbalances and Bretton Woods II Postulate 

  S, Krishnakumar (Centre for Development Studies2015-01Trivandrum, 2015-01)

  The growth performance of a group of east Asian economies including China, ever since the end of nineties, has been linked to their buoyant performance on the export front. The period till the 2007-08 financial crisis ...
• Delegation in Customs Union Formation 

  Ghosh, Sunandan (Centre for Development Studies2014-12Trivandrum, 2014-12)

  This paper deals with the issue of delegation between potential member countries while forming a Customs Union (CU) under a vertically differentiated monopoly in a three country world. Under universal market coverage, ...
• Local Governments and the Inclusion of the Excluded: Towards A Strategic Methodology with Empirical Illustration 

  Oommen, M A; Shyjan, D (Centre for Development Studies2014-10Trivandrum, 2014-10)

  Social inclusion has become a buzz word in development discourse in recent years. The Twelfth Five Year Plan as approved by the National Development Council has advisedly added a new chapter under the caption social ...
• Horizontal Devolution of Resources to States in India suggestions Before the Fourteenth Finance Commission 

  Mohan, R; Ramalingam, N; Shyjan, D (Centre for Development Studies2014-05Trivandrum, 2014-05)

  The paper discusses the general backdrop of the Constitutional and political aspects of the Indian federal structure and the terms of reference of Finance Commissions since the eleventh which go beyond the traditional ...
• Who Goes? Failures of Marital Provisioning and Women’s Agency among Less Skilled Emigrant Women Workers from Kerala 

  Kodoth, Praveena (Centre for Development Studies2014-03Trivandrum, 2014-03)

  Unlike Sri Lanka, the Philippines or Indonesia, the major structuring contexts of international migration from Kerala / India do not enable the mobility of less skilled women workers, yet it has been observed that they ...
• Land, Politics, Work and Home-Life at Adimalathura: Towards A Local History 

  Devika, J (Centre for Development Studies2014-01Trivandrum, 2014-01)

  This paper focuses on the fishing hamlet of Adimalathura located on the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, which has been identified as an area of extreme developmental disadvantage. Without claiming ...
• Land, Politics, Work and Home-Life in A City Slum: Reconstructing History From Oral Narratives 

  Devika, J (Centre for Development Studies2013-10Trivandrum, 2013-10)

  This paper is a limited attempt at sketching the history of a prominent slum in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, using mainly the memories of residents collected as oral narratives. It stops in the mid90s, when decentralization ...
• Changing Leadership in Computer and Information Services, Emergence Of India As The Current World Leader In Computer And Information Services 

  Mani, Sunil (Centre for Development Studies2013-09Trivandrum, 2013-09)

  The paper analyses the changing leadership in Computer and Information Services (CIS). Leadership is measured in terms of export shares. The leadership appears to have changed from United States of America, United Kingdom ...
• Missing Labour Force or ‘De-Feminization’ of Labour Force In India ? 

  Abraham, Vinoj (Centre for Development Studies2013-05Trivandrum, 2013-05)

  Reported as ‘Missing labour force in India’ the recent fluctuations in the labour participation are probably due to the short-term shifts in activities of women responding to favorable economic conditions. Such fluctuations ...
• Transforming State-Citizen Relations In Food Security Schemes: The Computerized Ration Card Management System In Kerala 

  Masiero, Silvia (Centre for Development Studies2012-12Trivandrum, 2012-12)

  In this paper we look at the application of ICTs to the improvement of state-citizen relations in a developing country context. Our argument is that, to maximise responsiveness of the government, ICTs need to target the ...
• Inflexion in Kerala’s Gulf Connection Report on Kerala Migration Survey 2011 

  Zachariah, K C; Irudaya Rajan, S (Centre for Development Studies2012-09Trivandrum, 2012-09)

  This Working Paper embodies the results of the Kerala Migration Survey (KMS) 2011. It is the fifth in the series of comprehensive studies on international and internal migration from Kerala being undertaken by the Centre ...
• Recent Developments in Kerala State Finances 

  Sen, Tapas K (Centre for Development Studies2012-07Trivandrum, 2012-07)

  This paper covers recent trends in a series of broad indicators of the financial health of the Government of Kerala with its developmental policy as the backdrop. It examines fiscal balances in Kerala that are not only ...
• Liberalisation of technical education in Kerala: has a significant increase in enrolment translated into increase in supply of engineers? 

  Mani, Sunil; M, Arun (Centre for Development Studies2012-03Trivandrum, 2012-03)

  There has been a significant increase in the places for undergraduate engineering degree programmes in the state. This has happened over the last decade by licensing a number of privately owned engineering colleges. ...
• Modeling Optimal Time-Differential Pricing of Electricity Under Uncertainty: Revisiting The Welfare Foundations 

  N, Vijayamohanan Pillai (Centre for Development Studies2012-03Trivandrum, 2012-03)

  Time-of-day (peak-load) pricing of electricity is an indirect form of load management that prices electricity according to differences in the cost of supply by time of day and season of year. It reflects the costs in a ...

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