Kerala′s Economic Development: Issues and Problems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761993568 ISBN 13: 9780761993568

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

This study examines the emerging economic problems which are affecting this once thriving Indian state. In the early nineties Kerala′s growth rate was high due to the enhanced performance of the secondary and tertiary sectors. Unable to sustain this steep development, Kerala is now in severe recession due to a number of factors including a rapidly aging population, rising urban poverty, growing numbers of educated unemployed, a steep fall in the prices of commercial crops, and migration, both inter-regional and to the Gulf.

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About the Author

B. A. Prakash is a former Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram. Earlier, he was a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Calicut, Kerala, where he had been teaching since 1976. After retirement from the University, he was appointed as chairman of Kerala Public Expenditure Review Committee for three years by the Government of Kerala. Professor Prakash has been conducting research on different topics relating to Kerala’s economic development during the last four decades and published a number of papers in leading journals, research reports and monographs. One topic in which he did research is on decentralization and local governance in Kerala. He has authored two research studies sponsored by 3rd State Finance Commission of Kerala and National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad. During the tenure as chairman of the 5th SFC (2015–2016), he got opportunity to conduct in-depth study on the finances of local governments and the fiscal decentralization experience of Kerala. This monograph is the outcome of his research on decentralization. Professor Prakash has edited two books on Indian economy examining the economic reforms and performance since 1991 and published in 2009 and 2012. He has also edited four books on Kerala’s economic development, covering the development of the state economy since its formation and up to 2018 and published by SAGE in 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2018.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761993568
• ISBN 13: 9780761993568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Prakash B A