Re: Re: Re: Keralan growth

2001-01-30 Thread ravi narayan
Jim Devine wrote: to quibble, shouldn't we separate "economic development" from "growth of per capita GDP"? I guess what you're saying is that if development is serving the collective but doesn't promote individual monetary prosperity (which is measured by GDP-type measures), that some

Re: Re: Re: Keralan growth

2001-01-30 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: to quibble, shouldn't we separate "economic development" from "growth of per capita GDP"? I guess what you're saying is that if development is serving the collective but doesn't promote individual monetary prosperity (which is measured by GDP-type measures), that some

RE: Re: RE: Keralan growth

2001-01-30 Thread David Shemano
Jim Devine wrote: At 11:31 AM 1/30/01 -0800, you wrote: Is there any better way to judge what people actually value other than to observe migrations? unfortunately, migrations also reflect the relative ease of border crossing, the relative perceived attractiveness

Re: Re: Re: Keralan growth

2001-01-30 Thread Anthony DCosta
The outmigration of Malaylis is higher than most other ethnic communities. What I am saying that Keralites leave Kerala and work in other parts of India more than say migrate abroad. For example, school teachers, petty officers in government/corporations, nurses (also in the US/Middle East),

Re: RE: Re: RE: Keralan growth

2001-01-30 Thread Jim Devine
I believe it was David who asked: Is there any better way to judge what people actually value other than to observe migrations? I answered: unfortunately, migrations also reflect the relative ease of border crossing, the relative perceived attractiveness of the country moved to, along with

Re: Re: Re: Re: Keralan growth

2001-01-30 Thread Michael Perelman
I don't know if 34 percent is too high, but in many rural parts of the country there are huge numbers of Indian doctors; some Filipinos also. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:52:23PM -0800, Anthony DCosta wrote: The outmigration of Malaylis is higher than most other ethnic communities. What I am