Kerala Transforming

Labor and Trade Mobility in times of Pandemic
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-53901-0
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

This book examines Kerala's recent development trajectory and highlights the impact of COVID-19 on its economy. It analyzes 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 Kerala’s 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beena, P. L.

Ranganathan, Thiagu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction PART I Structural Transformation and Sectoral Priorities 2. Revisiting Kerala’s 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. Kerala’s 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.