Kerala's industrial backwardness: A case of path dependence in industrialization?

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Title:	Kerala's industrial backwardness: A case of path dependence in industrialization?
Authors:	Thomas, J.J.
Keywords:	Asia India Industrialization Kerala Path dependence
Issue Date:	May-2005
Citation:	Thomas, J.J. (2005-05). Kerala's industrial backwardness: A case of path dependence in industrialization?. World Development 33 (5) : 763-783. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.12.002
Abstract:	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 chemical-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 interindustry interlinkages and industrial growth. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Source Title:	World Development
URI:	http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/117058
ISSN:	0305750X
DOI:	10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.12.002
Appears in Collections:	Staff Publications

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