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Two workers of the Kerala State Electricity Board installing a transformer in Kochi.

Are Kerala PSEs a boon or bane?

Kerala Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal interacts with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ahead of the budget presentation in Thiruvananthapuram on March 11, 2022. Photo: Mahinsha S/The Hindu

A way out of Kerala’s fiscal vulnerability

A school in Bodhgaya, Bihar .

India at 75 | A probe into the Nehruvian pledge

‘Big projects are announced, but there is a failure to take them to their logical consequence’

‘Mission Antyodaya’ should not fall by the wayside

Blocks with letters GST (Goods and Services Tax) on a yellow background. State financial policy to regulate tax collection rules and reduce bureaucratic burden. Investments, ease of doing business.

Goods and Services Tax as an unfinished agenda

M.A. Oommen,K.J. Joseph

Religious leaders take part in a meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on September 20, 2021.

Public reason leads to progress

Prof. C.T. Kurien was one of the early advocates of MGNREGS, and among the six economists invited by the U.N. Secretary General to make an independent evaluation of the global food situation in 1983-84.

Poverty has been the dominant theme in my writings: economist C.T. Kurien

Higher education in Kerala needs a new chapter

Still no recognition of the third tier

The Survey as policy with ideological overtones

The critical role of decentralised responses

Kerala Budget 2020| Promising and imaginative

Kochi: A view of Alfa Serene Apartments at Marad built on the coastal zone, in Kochi, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. The Supreme Court Friday directed demolition of flats built on the coastal zone of Kochi's Maradu within 138 days and asked the Kerala government to pay Rs 25 lakh interim compensation to each flat owner within four weeks. (PTI Photo)(PTI9_27_2019_000169B) *** Local Caption ***

Kerala’s modernity and its discontents

“Rebuilding is different from repairing and demands a paradigm shift in the concept and strategy of development.” A scene from Paravur in Kerala after the floods. REUTERS

Old challenges in building a new Kerala