Kerala : the development experience : reflections on sustainability and replicability / edited by Govindan Parayil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parayil, Govindan, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--India--Kerala.

Sustainable development.

Income distribution--India--Kerala.

Income distribution.

Social justice--India--Kerala.

Social justice.

Kerala (India)--Social conditions.

Kerala (India).

Kerala (India)--Economic conditions.

India--Kerala.

Physical Description:

x, 274 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This volume assembles much of the leading scholarly work which has been done on the remarkable 'Kerala Model of Development'. Coming out at a time when disillusion with neo-liberal development nostrums is mounting and the collapse of the South East Asian economies is putting in question the durability of the export-oriented, free market model -- development policy makers, practitioners and researchers are revisiting alternative models of development. As this volume demonstrates, 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 implications of the disjuncture between human development and economic growth? 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? How inclusive has the Kerala model been, particularly for the fishing community and other socially marginalized groups? Can the new people's campaign for decentralized development from below make Kerala's development experience more enduring? 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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Is Kerala's Development Experience a 'Model'? / Govindan Parayil 1

2 Is the Kerala Model Sustainable? Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future / Richard W. Franke, Barbara H. Chasin 16

3 Poverty Alleviation as Advancing Basic Human Capabilities: Kerala's Achievements Compared / K.P. Kannan 40

4 Social Capital and the Developmental State: Industrial Workers in Kerala / Patrick Heller 66

5 Kerala's Development Achievements and their Replicability / V.K. Ramachandran 88

6 The New Popular Politics of Development: Kerala's Experience / Olle Tornquist 116

7 Normal Kerala within Abnormal India: Reflections on Gender and Sustainability / William M. Alexander 139

8 Knowledge, Democratization and Sustainability: The 'Kerala Model' of Scientific Capacity Building / Wesley Shrum, Sundar Ramanathaiyer 157

9 The Kerala Model: Its Central Tendency and the 'Outlier' / John Kurien 178

10 The Kerala Model: Some Comparisons with the Sri Lankan Experience / Rex Casinader 198

11 Sustainability and the 'New' Kerala Model / Rene Veron 212

12 What Does the Kerala Model Signify? Towards a Possible 'Fourth World' / M.P. Parameswaran 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-266) and index.

ISBN:

1856497267

1856497275

OCLC:

42667958