At a time when disillusion with neo-liberal development nostrums is mounting, alternative models of development are being revisited. Kerala's 30 million people may not have experienced rapid growth in GDP per capita, but they have for the past several decades achieved a remarkable social record in terms of adult literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, stabilizing population growth, and narrowing gender and spatial gaps. What are the political, social and cultural factors responsible for Kerala's success? Does its human development record necessarily relate to sustainability in environmental terms? What realistic view can be taken of its replicability elsewhere in India or further afield in the South? These are among the most important questions explored in this timely reassessment.
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The Indian state of Kerala, with its population of nearly 30 million (larger than that of Canada, which has a land mass more than 250 times greater), has become an 'enigma' and a 'paradox' to many economists and development experts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
headload workers, grama sabha, matrilineal past, coir workers, oppressed castes, unorganized sector, group farming, factory sector, decentralized planning, public distribution system, mainstream concept, agrarian relations, paddy cultivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Isaac, State Planning Board, West Bengal, Third World, Fourth World, India Kerala, Southeast Asian, World Bank, Uttar Pradesh, New World Order, Tamil Nadu, National Sample Survey, New Delhi, Amartya Sen, Congress Party, Asian Six, First World, Labour Department, Sen Committee, South Asia, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, Kerala Studies, British India, Census of India, First International Congress New!
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The Indian state of Kerala, with its population of nearly 30 million (larger than that of Canada, which has a land mass more than 250 times greater), has become an 'enigma' and a 'paradox' to many economists and development experts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
headload workers, grama sabha, matrilineal past, coir workers, oppressed castes, unorganized sector, group farming, factory sector, decentralized planning, public distribution system, mainstream concept, agrarian relations, paddy cultivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Isaac, State Planning Board, West Bengal, Third World, Fourth World, India Kerala, Southeast Asian, World Bank, Uttar Pradesh, New World Order, Tamil Nadu, National Sample Survey, New Delhi, Amartya Sen, Congress Party, Asian Six, First World, Labour Department, Sen Committee, South Asia, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, Kerala Studies, British India, Census of India, First International Congress New!
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- Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) by Nan Lin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Regional Cultures by Jai Press in Back Matter
- Dialectics of Nature by Frederick Engels in Back Matter
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