Kerala’s Economic Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9352807650 ISBN 13: 9789352807659

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Focusing on current economic problems, Kerala′s Economic Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges provides an in-depth analysis of the major development issues and challenges faced by the state. Kerala’s development experience has attracted worldwide attention due to its paradoxical development: attaining higher quality of life of people on the one hand and continuation of the backward productive sectors on the other. The state’s economy remained backward in many respects and relied heavily on the remittance of Keralite emigrants. The implementation of liberalisation and globalisation policies since 1991 radically altered the growth process and Kerala achieved higher rates of investment and growth and greater technological change. These policies, however, have not only provided enormous opportunities, but also new challenges. This book examines the state’s economic growth as well as the issues that have accompanied the policy changes.

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About the Author:

B. A. Prakash is Former Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram. Earlier he was a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Calicut, 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. The latest official position held by him is Chairman, Fifth State Finance Commission, Kerala. Professor Prakash has been conducting research on different topics relating to Kerala’s economic development during the last four decades and has published a number of papers in leading journals, research reports and monographs. He has also edited six books on India’s and Kerala’s economy. SAGE had previously published three of his edited books, namely, Kerala’s Economy: Performance, Problems and Prospects (1994); Kerala’s Economic Development: Issues and Problems (1999); and Kerala’s Economic Development: Performance and Problems in the Post-Liberalisation Period (2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 9352807650
• ISBN 13: 9789352807659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Prakash B. A., Alwin Jerry