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From 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 orDocumentMorbidity patterns in Kerala: levels and determinants
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009This paper examines the levels, patterns, and determinants of morbidity in Kerala. This study is based on a community survey conducted in 2004, in three districts of the state namely Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram and Kannur. The survey covers 3320 households having 17071 individuals in all age groups. Reported morbidity was captured for a period of fifteen days prior to the data of survey.DocumentUsing social media for the prevention of violence against women: Lessons learned from social media communication campaigns to prevent violence against women in India, China and Viet Nam | Partners4Prevention
Partners for Prevention, 2013Using social media sites has become a part of the daily lives of millions of people. Based on lessons learned from the Partners for Prevention regional project ‘Engaging Young Men through Social Media for the Prevention of Violence against Women’, this publication offers an understanding of how to use social media as a tool to prevent violence against women.DocumentUsing social media for the prevention of violence against women: Lessons learned from social media communication campaigns to prevent violence against women in India, China and Viet Nam | Partners4Prevention
Partners for Prevention, 2013Using social media sites has become a part of the daily lives of millions of people. Based on lessons learned from the Partners for Prevention regional project ‘Engaging Young Men through Social Media for the Prevention of Violence against Women’, this publication offers an understanding of how to use social media as a tool to prevent violence against women.DocumentMaking health insurance work for the poor: learning from the Self-Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) community-based health insurance scheme in India
Social Science and Medicine, 2006The purpose of this paper is to measure the distributional impact of a large community-based health insurance (CBHI) scheme in Gujarat, India, which reimburses hospitalisation costs, and to identify barriers to optimal distributional impact.DocumentRural 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.DocumentCompliance, competitiveness and market access: a study on Indian seafood industry
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010This study attempts to estimate the effects of the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in terms of trade elasticity of regulations and competitiveness of exports. In spite of the generalised acknowledgment of growing liberalization of trade between countries, there are still numerous obstacles to trade, more of the non-tariff type.DocumentEmployment growth in rural India: distress driven?
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008A turnaround in employment growth was recorded in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in the agriculture sector that included low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness.Pages