This book examines Kerala's recent development trajectory and highlights the impact COVID-19 has had on its economy. It analyses Kerala's growth and structural transformation while engaging critically with issues related to employment and migration.
This book examines Kerala's recent development trajectory and highlights the impact COVID-19 has had on its economy. It analyses Kerala's growth and structural transformation while engaging critically with issues related to employment and migration. The book delves into policies aimed at reintegrating return migrants into Keralas development process. It examines the implications of Free Trade Agreements and policies initiated by the Government of India under the WTO regime on agriculture. The chapters in the book also investigate the impact of the growth trajectories on distributional aspects of inequality and social mobility.
Timely and topical, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of economics, development studies, trade, labour and migration, political economy, Kerala economy, and South Asian studies.
1. Introduction PART I Structural Transformation and Sectoral Priorities
2. Revisiting Keralas Manufacturing Sector: New Trends in Production,
Labour, and Trade
3. Import surge of agricultural products under the FTAs:
Protection of substitutable products to address livelihood concerns PART II
Structural Transformation and Impact of COVID-19 on Remittances and Labour
Question
4. Labour Supply Behaviour of the Return Emigrants in Kerala
5.
Keralas Labour Market: The Impact of Inward and Outward Migration Flows
6.
Employer-Employee Dynamics: The Study in Return-Migrants During COVID-19
7.
COVID-19 and Gulf Return Migration: An Opportunity to Re-Orient Government
Strategies
8. COVID-19 Pandemic, International Remittances, and Economic
Growth in Kerala: A Macro Analysis
9. Remittances and Golden Kerala: The
Economics of Productive Consumption or Conspicuous Consumption?
10. Economic
Impact of Lockdown on Common People in Kerala: A Survey Report PART III
Structural Transformation and Distributional Issues
11. Structural Change in
India: A State-Level Analysis with a Focus on Kerala and Tamil Nadu
12.
Organized Peasant Migration and Intergenerational Mobility: A Case of
Madambam Settlement in Kannur District, Kerala
13. What Perpetuates
Multidimensional Inequalities in Plantations? A Study of Tea Plantations in
Kerala in a Comparative Setting
P. L. Beena is Professor at the Centre for Developmental Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. She has held positions as Consultant at NCAER, Research Information System for the Developing Countries, New Delhi and South Asia visiting scholar at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford before joining CDS. Since her PhD at CESP, JNU, her main areas of research are in the field of corporate mergers, inward and outward FDI through CBM&As and antitrust policies; innovation and competition in the high-tech sectors under the new IPR regime; MSMEs and women entrepreneurship; WTO agreements and its implications on Indian Industries; Contemporary Issues on Indian Economy.
Thiagu Ranganathan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. Since his PhD at IIT Bombay, he has worked on issues in agricultural economics and development economics including agricultural price risk management, implications of water scarcity on rural livelihood diversification, institutional barriers to employment of higher educated women, and implications of monetary incentives on forest restoration. His work spans across themes of risk, vulnerability, resilience, livelihood diversification, and social mobility.
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