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ICT and employment promotion among poor women: how can we make it happen? Some reflections on Kerala's experience
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative women based participatory programme)DocumentGlobalisation lived locally: new forms of control, conflict and response among labour in Kerala, examined through a labour geography lens
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009With the support of the labour geography framework, this study tries to analyse how the economic geography of capitalism is shaped by the spatial practices of labour.DocumentThe deluge of debt: understanding the financial needs of poor households
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009This paper discusses the financial lives of poor households. It examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method of financial diary for data collection is adopted for the study. The sample size is 13.DocumentA study of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in three Grama Panchayats of Kasaragod District
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is a historic legislation passed by the Government of India in September 2005. It was enacted in order to address the crucial issues of unemployment and poverty in rural India. The NREGA guarantees a hundred days of unskilled employment to each household in every financial year at an equal wage rate for both male and female workers.DocumentWomen's livelihoods, global markets and citizenship
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009The underlying assumption of the economic integration epitomised byDocumentThe effect of information technology on wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral shift in production technology.DocumentNature 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.DocumentOverseas recruitment in India: structures, practices and remedies
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010The increasing number of emigrants from India for employment over years has resulted in intense transnational transfer of funds in favour of the country.1 The inward flow of remittances to India had been increasing steadily from the 1970s.Pages