Kerala : the Development experience : reflections on sustainability and replicability / Govindan Parayil
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TextPublication details: London : Zed Books, 2000Description: x, 274p, 22cmISBN: - 1856497275
- 338.95483 PAR
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At a time when disillusion with neo-liberal development nostrums is mounting, alternative models of development are being revisited. Kerala's 30 million people may not have experienced rapid growth in GDP per capita, but they have for the past several decades achieved a remarkable social record in terms of adult literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, stabilizing population growth, and narrowing gender and spatial gaps. The political, social and cultural factors responsible for Kerala's success are discussed. Does its human development record necessarily relate to sustainability in environmental terms; What realistic view can be taken of its replicability elsewhere in India or further in the South- these are among the most important questions explored in this book.
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