Articles by M K Sukumaran Nair

Growth sans Development M K SUKUMARAN NAIR The development trajectory of Botswana, a country which had an unparallel record of sustained economic growth for nearly three decades, has not attracted the wider international attention that it deserves. In this context, the efforts made by Mohanan Pillai (June 10, 2006) to analyse the growth process of the Botswanan economy and its impact on social development deserves special attention. Pillai argues that through prudent macroeconomic management, Botswana has succeeded in transforming the diamond boom of the 1970s to sustained economic growth without a

The pattern of land distribution and the nature of the crops grown are, inter alia, two key determinants of rural labour market dynamics. Most of the existing literature on rural labour markets have the skewed distribution of land and the predominance of annual crops as their behavioural assumptions. It is argued here that the theories developed on these assumptions are unable to explain the labour market behaviour in rural Kerala where agriculture is characterised by the predominance of small holdings and perennial tree crops. These two characteristics have substantially altered the structure of the labour market from the stylised model and hence theories based on the dominant norm fail to explain the labour market behaviour in Kerala.