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Kerala's Industrial Backwardness: A Case of Path Dependence in Industrialization?
The Indian State of Kerala presents a paradox of development, with its remarkable social achievements and relative industrial backwardness. This paper describes Kerala's industrial backwardness as due to a path dependent process of industrialization. A policy decision in the 1930s - marked by a...
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ISAS Background Brief No. 3 - Date: 15 May 2005
2005
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/003850.pdf |
| Summary: | The Indian State of Kerala presents a paradox of development, with its remarkable social achievements and relative industrial backwardness. This paper describes Kerala's industrial backwardness as due to a path dependent process of industrialization. A policy decision in the 1930s - marked by a priority for investments in chemicals-based industries and the identification of hydroelectricity as a potential basis for industrialization - continue to have implications for industrial growth in Kerala today. With the policy decision in the 1930s, industrial structure in Kerala came to be locked into a pattern that offered very little potential for inter-industry inter-linkages and industrial growth. |
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