This paper is about 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. The study...

This study analyzes the impact of democratic decentralization on the chances of socially excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions - Panchayat Rai Institutions - in three Indian states. This institutional reform included a quota for disadvantaged groups like...

Banking sector reforms, which is a major component of Macroeconomic Adjustment Programme in India, has changed the trends and patterns of banking over the last six to seven years. This paper seeks to analyse the trends in credit deployment by industry, by bank group, by rural and urban areas,...

Kerala is in the forefront of decentralisation of powers following the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments. The existence of a large number of health care, educational and other institutions in every Panchayat in Kerala has necessitated decentralisation of every sector as part of the overall...

The past three decades have witnessed the growth of a voluminous literature on tenancy arid reIated institutions. Problems of resource use efficiency, role of markets, inter-linkages between markets and the emergence of institutions have all emerged as major issues. [Working Paper No. 260]

The objective of this paper is to give a rigorous and systematic conceptualization of Labour process which could provide a definite view point or approach to the study of evolution of social technology. [Working Paper No. 131]

Early writers on fertility decline (Thompson 1929; Davis 1945 1955 1963; Notestein 1945; Feemdman 1961 -62) emphasized broad forces of modernization, such as urbanization, industrialization, shifts to non-agricultural labor, and increased literacy, as bringing about changes in traditional structures. The...

Early writers on fertility decline (Thompson 1929; Davis 1945 1955 1963; Notestein 1945; Feedman 1961-62) emphasized broad forces of modernization, such as urbanization, industridiization, shifts to non-agricultural labor, and increased literacy, as bringing about changes in traditional structures. The...