SOCIAL REFORMS AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT IN
SOUTHERN STATES
G.Thimmaiah
1. Introduction.
Economists
have tried to identify factors which
have been responsible for the differences in the growth performance of major
states in the Indian Union. Some have
identified investment climate, some others have identified quality of
governance, infrastructure and availability of human capital as major factors
which attract investment and ultimately result in varying rates of growth of
GSDP. (Paul and Sridhar, 2009). Some of the recent studies, (Ahluwalia, 2000), have compared
the growth performance of major states before and after the introduction of economic liberalization and economic reforms
and have attributed economic reforms as contributory factor for impressive
growth rates of
GSDP of major states. But no attempt has been made to study and understand
the impact of social reforms at least in southern states, where they have
operated for almost a century, on the growth performance of southern states. I
have made an attempt here to understand the mechanism of operation of social
reforms and their impact on the economic development of southern states. In
order to understand the impact of social reforms on economic development of
southern states, we have to understand the nature of social reforms which
operated in those states.
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