I might add that a good proportion of Malaylis who work abroad are not
highly educated, especially many Muslims from Kerala working in the Middle
East. OTOH Malaylis are on the average better educated than most other
Indian ethnic groups. One could hypothesize that the low growth in Kerala
has been precisely due to those political forces (the CPM and the general
left politics) that promoted a more a egalitarian development. But also
note the lack of direct British rule in the region and the matrilineal
society that is part of the southern region as important historical
factors, in addition to the not so great agriculture (limited land with
the beautiful western ghats (banks), tropical forests, and a long
coastline.
Cheers, Anthony
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:59:23 -0500
> From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:7533] Re: Re: Re: Buck Fush
>
> Michael,
> Yes, Kerala does a very good job of educating
> its young girls. There is a new quite good book about
> Kerala called, _Kerala: The Development Experience_
> edited by Govind Payatal, London: Zed Books, 2000.
> The big negative, as has been noted on this list before,
> is that Kerala has had quite slow per capita GDP growth
> leading to a lot of outmigration. The state is now the
> recipient of considerable inflows of income from its
> well-educated populace working abroad.
> Barkley Rosser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:55 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:7497] Re: Re: Buck Fush
>
>
> >Doesn't kerala do a better job of educating young girls? Isn't that very
> >important?
> >
> >But then, I have read about family planning being important for empowering
> >women vis a vis their husbands.
> >
> >On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:49:44PM -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >> Maggie says:
> >>
> >> >I think what we need to do is support pro-CHOICE, which is not the same
> as
> >> >pro-abortion, though abortion is a very important part of choice.
> >>
> >> Well, the question is, though, if the "international family planning
> >> organizations" have had a measurable impact of expanding women's
> >> choices in poor nations. I don't think Kerala has a lower birth rate
> >> than the rest of India because the former has more "international
> >> family planning organizations" than the latter.
> >>
> >> Charity never solves any problem, even if it's truly charitable (and
> >> it often isn't).
> >>
> >> Yoshie
> >>
> >
> >--
> >Michael Perelman
> >Economics Department
> >California State University
> >Chico, CA 95929
> >
> >Tel. 530-898-5321
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> >
> >
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