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

Narendar Pani and K Jafar

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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.

Keywords: education; human development; rural sector; structural change; urbanisation; capability; labour markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C6 I25 I28 J6 J62 J8 O1 O15 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in Oxford Development Studies 1.38(2010): pp. 25-42

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