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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jayan Jose Thomas
Format: Printed Book
Published: ISAS Background Brief No. 3 - Date: 15 May 2005 2005
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/003850.pdf
LEADER 011470000a22001330004500
100 |a Jayan Jose Thomas 
245 |a Kerala's Industrial Backwardness: A Case of Path Dependence in Industrialization? 
260 |c 2005 
260 |b ISAS Background Brief No. 3 - Date: 15 May 2005 
520 |a 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. 
856 |u http://10.26.1.76/ks/003850.pdf 
942 |c KS 
999 |c 73238  |d 73238 
952 |0 0  |1 0  |4 0  |7 0  |9 65202  |a MGUL  |b MGUL  |d 2015-08-01  |l 0  |r 2015-08-01  |w 2015-08-01  |y KS 

Similar Items