Kappadath Parameswara Menon Kannan discusses two recent initiatives for providing social security to Indian workers in the informal economy. He looks at the National Rural Employment Guarantee and the Social Security for Unorganized (Informal) Workers as landmark initiatives that indicate an...

The focus of the paper is to review the Terms of Reference (TOR) of the Twelfth Finance Commission with special reference to Kerala. It also critically examines the emphasis on fiscal deficit reduction without paying attention to its quality and finds that this has led to the Centre and the...

This paper attempts an economic evaluation of the Kuttanad Development Project (henceforth referred to as KDP) whioh is part of an overall programme of the Government of Kerala to augment the Production' of paddy in the state. The paper highlights two important aspects: one 'pertaining to the...