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Nature and characteristics of seasonal labour migration: a case study in Mahabubnagar District of Andhra Pradesh
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010In India, migration from rural areas is an important issue that is gaining more significance year after year. Moreover, the extent, nature, characteristics and pattern of migration have been evolving over time. In fact, the growing part of the migration taking place is seasonal and cyclical in nature. Seasonal or short duration migration is certainly notDocumentImpact of the global recession on migration and remittances in Kerala : new evidences from the Return Migration Study (RMS) 2009
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010This study has brought to light some of the broad dimensions of the problems created by the global recession on Kerala emigrants – the number of emigrants who became unemployed, the number who lostDocumentGlobal crisis, environmental volatility and expansion of the Indian leather industry
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010The leather industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy in view of its massive potential for employment, growth and exports. However, the on-going global economic slowdown and the wide erratic behaviour of the overall weather condition particularly in the Europe pose both threat (of market loss) and opportunity (to gain some unanticipated demand in the market) before it.DocumentFrom Kerala via Kerala via the Gulf: emigration experiences of return emigrants
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2011This paper about return emigrants in Kerala is based on information on return emigrants collected by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) through several of its recent large-scale household surveys. The term ‘return emigrants’ is used here to mean Kerala-born persons, who have lived outside India for a minimum of 12 months orDocumentRural development in India: reversals for diversity
Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 1991This paper argues that in the search for more equitable and effective rural development, professionals and professionalism are part of the problem. Normal bureaucracy, normal professionalism, normal careers, and normal modes of learning interlock to sustain centralised, standardised and simple perceptions, prescriptions, and programmes.DocumentDynamics of rural water supply in coastal Kerala : a sustainable development view
Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2008This paper examines empirically within sustainable development framework the dynamics of coverage in rural drinking water supply of 180 demand-driven schemes from Malappuram, predominantly a coastal district of Kerala State in India.DocumentLand, labour and migrations: understanding Kerala's economic modernity
Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2009This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under cultivation.DocumentPeasant classes, farm incomes and rural indebtedness: an analysis of household production data from two states
Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2009The crisis and stagnation in Indian agriculture have persisted for over a decade and are not showing any signs of reversal. Falling real product prices faced by primary commodity producers have been one of the central causes for escalating farm indebtedness.DocumentTo cultivate or not? examining factors that influence jatropha agriculture in north east India
South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014India’s biofuel policy seeks to increase demand for biodiesel to 16.72 million tons by 2017 and encourages 20% blending of biodiesel with other fuels (Planning Commission, 2003). The main source for biodiesel is the plant jatropha, which is a relatively new crop in Indian agriculture (Raja et al., 2011; Aradhey, 2013).DocumentIndia's FTAs with East and SE Asia: impact of India-Malaysia CECA on the edible oil value chain
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. Existing academic literature have relied on examining Balance of Payments (BoP) to assess the impact of FTAs. The paper views such methodology as reductionist, and instead others alternative lenses of the impacts on the commodity value chain.Pages