Capabilities, growth and non-agrarian villages: Second phase of the Kerala model

Pani, Narendar and Jafar, K (2008): Capabilities, growth and non-agrarian villages: Second phase of the Kerala model. Published in: Oxford Development Studies , Vol. 38, No. 1 (March 2010): pp. 25-42.

Abstract

Kerala’s image of a low growth state with high social indices has come up against some striking empirical trends. Its growth rate has taken off, it has become vastly less agrarian and has yet refused to urbanize. This paper seeks to explain these patterns as a result of the state’s limited use of the capabilities approach. We use a combination of a simple mathematical model and the experience of Kerala to argue that the capabilities approach can affect patterns of growth as well as the transition of agrarian economies into non-agrarian ones. This in turn can affect the process of urbanization, contributing to the creation of non-agrarian villages.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: education, human development, rural sector, structural change, urbanisation, capability, labour markets
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I25 - Education and Economic Development; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I28 - Government Policy; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J8 - Labor Standards: National and International; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy

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