An Emerging Knowledge Economy and a Stagnating Agrarian Economy: Contradictions in Andhra Pradesh under Globalization

Jayan Thomas

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Abstract: This paper presents some features of the contradictions in Andhra Pradesh’s economy today: the fast growth of IT and other technology-intensive industries in Hyderabad, and the alarming levels of distress among small farmers and landless labourers in rural areas of the State. In particular, the paper, through a field study of selected villages in Kuppam, tried to examine the extent to which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can aid development in rural Andhra Pradesh.

Keywords: IT; information technology; knowledge economy; technology-intensive industries; Hyderabad; Kuppam; Andhra Pradesh; communication technologies; ICTs; agrarian economy; farmers' distress; globalisation; Economics; Sociology; South Asian Studies; Indian Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-03
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