TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roy, Tirthankar.
AU  - ;Raman, K. Ravi.
AU  -  Tirthankar Roy
TI  - Kerala, 1956 to the Present: : India's Miracle State
SN  - 9781009521659
U1  - 315.48 ROY 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - , New York
PB  - : Cambridge University Press
KW  - Kerala
KW  - Economic change
KW  - Politics
N2  - Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the foundations of human development were laid before the formation of the state and were owed to many factors besides politics. The striking thing about the state is its unusual income growth, which has been faster than most states since the 1990s. The question the authors ask is, 'How could an income-poor state break out of stagnation so dramatically?' The answers consider past globalisation, labour mobility, a legacy of welfare spending, and the positive ways these features interacted since India's economic reforms
ER  -