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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...