Disproportionately high investment in irrigation has nevertheless been marked by long time overruns in completion of projects and a far lower area than that targeted being brought under irrigation. To what extent irrigation has succeeded in increasing and stabilising paddy yields is considered....

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...

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...