Papers by Jafar K
Hyderabad Social Development Papers, Volume: 3, Number: 2, Page: 23-45, December 2015
Social Change, 43(1):79–97, Mar 2013
Based on the capability approach, this article tries to see the implications of reservation polic... more Based on the capability approach, this article tries to see the implications of reservation policy on the political freedom of women in Kerala. Using a primary survey of candidates in a recent panchayat election in Malappuram district of Kerala it establishes the role of reservation in bringing many educated young women into local politics and decision-making bodies. It also reflects on the role of party and non-party forces such as family and religion in local politics and political freedom of women. The article concludes that the new reservation has resulted in improving the constitutive political freedom of educated-young women in Kerala, but the instrumental political freedom resulted from reservation has not been as evident.
Acknowledgements: The article has benefited a great deal from the discussions with Dr Narendar Pani, Dr Chidambaran Iyer, Dr Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (NIAS) and Rajesh K. (ISEC). The author would like to thank the referees for providing valuable comments which helped in revising the manuscript. None of them are responsible for any of the errors that may still remain in the article.
"The advance of the human development perspective has seen education being established not just a... more "The advance of the human development perspective has seen education being established not just as a means of development but as an end in itself. This has created a case for focusing on mass education, even if it implies lower growth rates in the initial years. Such an approach is bound to influence the very pattern of development over the long run. For one, a sustained emphasis on mass education within a framework that assures adequate social security could increase the well-being of workers to a point where it affects the choices they make. In this paper a combination of a simple mathematical model and the experience of the south Indian state of Kerala is used to suggest some patterns of development over the long term that this approach throws up. It argues that the effects of this approach could be wide-ranging, including contributing to the creation of non-agrarian villages.
* This paper has benefited a great deal from discussions with Rajesh Kasturirangan, Prabhakar Vaidya, Kishor Bhat and Tim Poston. None of them is of course responsible for any errors that remain."
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Kerala’s image of a low growth state with high social indices has
come up against some striking e... more Kerala’s image of a low growth state with high social indices has
come up against some striking empirical trends. Its growth rate
has taken off, it has become vastly less agrarian and has yet
refused to urbanize. This paper seeks to explain these patterns as
a result of the state’s limited use of the capabilities approach. We
use a combination of a simple mathematical model and the
experience of Kerala to argue that the capabilities approach can
affect patterns of growth as well as the transition of agrarian
economies into non-agrarian ones. This in turn can affect the
process of urbanization, contributing to the creation of nonagrarian
villages.
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Papers by Jafar K
Acknowledgements: The article has benefited a great deal from the discussions with Dr Narendar Pani, Dr Chidambaran Iyer, Dr Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (NIAS) and Rajesh K. (ISEC). The author would like to thank the referees for providing valuable comments which helped in revising the manuscript. None of them are responsible for any of the errors that may still remain in the article.
* This paper has benefited a great deal from discussions with Rajesh Kasturirangan, Prabhakar Vaidya, Kishor Bhat and Tim Poston. None of them is of course responsible for any errors that remain."
Conference Presentations by Jafar K
Drafts by Jafar K
come up against some striking empirical trends. Its growth rate
has taken off, it has become vastly less agrarian and has yet
refused to urbanize. This paper seeks to explain these patterns as
a result of the state’s limited use of the capabilities approach. We
use a combination of a simple mathematical model and the
experience of Kerala to argue that the capabilities approach can
affect patterns of growth as well as the transition of agrarian
economies into non-agrarian ones. This in turn can affect the
process of urbanization, contributing to the creation of nonagrarian
villages.
Acknowledgements: The article has benefited a great deal from the discussions with Dr Narendar Pani, Dr Chidambaran Iyer, Dr Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (NIAS) and Rajesh K. (ISEC). The author would like to thank the referees for providing valuable comments which helped in revising the manuscript. None of them are responsible for any of the errors that may still remain in the article.
* This paper has benefited a great deal from discussions with Rajesh Kasturirangan, Prabhakar Vaidya, Kishor Bhat and Tim Poston. None of them is of course responsible for any errors that remain."
come up against some striking empirical trends. Its growth rate
has taken off, it has become vastly less agrarian and has yet
refused to urbanize. This paper seeks to explain these patterns as
a result of the state’s limited use of the capabilities approach. We
use a combination of a simple mathematical model and the
experience of Kerala to argue that the capabilities approach can
affect patterns of growth as well as the transition of agrarian
economies into non-agrarian ones. This in turn can affect the
process of urbanization, contributing to the creation of nonagrarian
villages.