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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 May 2024
      28 November 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009521628
      9781009521635
      9781009521659
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009521628
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 182 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 182 Pages
      • Subjects:
      South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, History, Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Economic History
      Series:
      Economic Histories of Indian States
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    Subjects:
    South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, History, Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Economic History
    Series:
    Economic Histories of Indian States
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    '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.

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