The adverse sex ratio, a feature of India, is an outcome of two forms of inequality; natal inequality through sex-selective abortion, and mortality inequality. The analysis of trends in mortality inequality at the infant stage, which is the subject of this paper, in the rural and urban areas of...

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...

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...

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 article examines the operation of Kudumbashree, the Poverty Eradication Mission for the Indian State of Kerala. Kudumbashree operates through female-only Neighbourhood Groups, which aim to contribute to their participants' economic uplift, and to integrate them with the activities and...

This study analyses the impact of democratic decentralisation on the chances of socially excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions – Panchayati Raj Institutions – in three Indian states. This institutional reform included a quota for the disadvantaged –...

The low credit-deposit ratio of the scheduled commercial banks in Kerala has been a subject of intense debate during the last decade or so. Periodically, the state government would raise the issue, lash out at the `negative attitude' of the banks for the lack of development of the state, the...

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,...