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This book examines Kerala's recent development trajectory and highlights the impact COVID-19 has had on its economy. It analyses Kerala's growth and structural transformation while engaging critically with issues related to employment and migration.
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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
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PL Beena is Professor at the Centre for Developmental Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. She was awarded South Asia visiting scholar fellowship from Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford before joining CDS. 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-owned enterprises; WTO agreements and textile & clothing sector in South Asia; Globalization, SEZ, and industrialization in Kerala.
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 and implications of water scarcity on rural livelihood diversification.
