Contents: Preface. I. Introduction. 1. Introduction and Overview/ A. Prakash and Jerry Alwin. 2. Economic Liberalisation and Economic Growth in Kerala/A. Prakash. II. Demography, Employment and Migration: 3. Demographic Change in Kerala/S. Irudaya Rajan and S. Sunitha. 4. Employment and Unemployment in Kerala/M. P. Abraham and A. S. Shibu. 5. Emigration of Keralite Workers to West Asia: Trends, Patterns and Economic Impacts/A. Prakash. 6. Interstate Migration of Workers: A Study of Migration of Casual Workers to Kerala/V. Prakash. III. Agriculture: 7. Performance of Agriculture in Kerala/K. P. Mani. 8. Lagging Sector in a Leading Economy: Case of Plantation Agriculture in Kerala/K. J. Joseph and Brigit Joseph. 9. Agrarian Change and Marginalisation of Agricultural Households: The Case of Kerala/P. Aravindh and S. Harikumar. IV. Industry and Infrastructure: 10. Emerging Trends in the Information Technology Services Sector in Kerala/Tomy Joseph. 11. Development of Power Sector in Kerala/N. Vijayamohanan Pillai. 12. Development of Transport Sector in Kerala/Arun Shyamnath. V. Tourism and Banking: 13. Tourism Development in Kerala: Issues, Problems and Prospects/Rony Thomas Rajan and Shijo Philip. 14. Development of Banking in Kerala/Jerry Alwin. VI. Education and Health: 15. VI. Education and Health/A. Abdul Salim. 16. Healthcare Development in Kerala: Current Status and Emerging Issues/K. Gangadharan. VII. State Finance and Planning: 17. Kerala’s Acute Fiscal Crisis: An Analysis of Causes/B. A. Prakash and Jerry Alwin. 18. India’s Goods and Services Tax: An Overview/Jose Sebastian. 19. Eleventh Five Year Plan: An Analysis of Plan Performance/Jerry Alwin. 20. Decentralised Planning: A Study of Plan Performance of Grama Panchayats in Kerala/B. A. Prakash. Index. Focusing on current economic problems, Kerala's Economic Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges provides an in-depth analysis of the major development issues and challenges faced by the state. Kerala’s development experience has attracted worldwide attention due to its paradoxical development: attaining higher quality of life of people on the one hand and continuation of the backward productive sectors on the other. The state’s economy remained backward in many respects and relied heavily on the remittance of Keralite emigrants. The implementation of liberalisation and globalisation policies since 1991 radically altered the growth process and Kerala achieved higher rates of investment and growth and greater technological change. These policies, however, have not only provided enormous opportunities, but also new challenges. This book examines the state’s economic growth as well as the issues that have accompanied the policy changes.