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CRGD's research is organised into eighteen verticals. Each one asks a small number of hard questions about how Kerala and India are governed, and answers them with data, field work and comparison. The verticals talk to each other: few real policy problems stay inside one subject.
At a glance
Choose a vertical to read its questions, see who works on it and find everything it has published.
In detail
How governments raise and spend public money, how they are held to account for it, and how the machinery of administration can serve citizens better.
10 publications
From early childhood to university, how Kerala and India can move from near universal access to genuinely good learning for every student.
2 publications
How a society that has largely won the battles against early death and high fertility can meet its next challenges, from chronic disease to an ageing population.
1 publication
Why educated young people struggle to find work at home, why women's participation in paid work remains low, and how migration in and out of Kerala shapes the labour market.
5 publications
How powers, money and responsibilities are shared between the Union, the states and local governments, and how that balance affects what Kerala can do for its people.
6 publications
How tourism and cultural life can bring prosperity to communities without eroding the places, traditions and environments that attract visitors in the first place.
0 publications
How people and goods move across a densely settled state, and how transport policy can make journeys safer, cleaner, fairer and quicker.
2 publications
The future of farming and rural livelihoods in a state where land is scarce, labour is costly and the climate is changing.
1 publication
Long range planning for the state, and the strategic questions of security, diaspora and the Indian Ocean that matter to Kerala and to India.
1 publication
How science, technology, clean energy and artificial intelligence can serve the public, and how they should be governed.
0 publications
Ports, shipping, fisheries and coastal communities, and how Kerala can build a maritime economy that is prosperous, fair and sustainable.
2 publications
How laws are made, interpreted and enforced, and how they meet the realities of social life, from family and religion to speech and policing.
0 publications
Whether public institutions treat every citizen fairly, and how policy can close the gaps that caste, gender, disability, tribe and poverty still produce.
4 publications
The structure and prospects of Kerala's economy, and how growth can create good jobs, public revenue and broad prosperity.
3 publications
Protecting the ecology of the Western Ghats, the coast and the wetlands, and preparing communities for floods, landslides and a changing climate.
3 publications
How the state is governed in practice: the legislature, the executive, political parties and the political culture that shapes public decisions.
5 publications
How a state where town and village blur into each other can plan for housing, water, waste, transport and public space.
4 publications
How citizens form political opinions, how elections are fought, and how narratives, media and misinformation shape public perceptions of policy.
0 publications
New
A transhipment port creates few jobs by itself. Whether Thiruvananthapuram benefits depends on the logistics, housing, skills and services that grow around it, and on planning that starts now.
Scholar Two
A forthcoming edited volume bringing together essays by CRGD researchers and invited contributors on the central questions of governing Kerala in the coming decades.
Scholar One
Borrowing by state owned bodies has become a large and contested part of public finance. A simple annual disclosure statement would let legislators and citizens see the full picture without stopping investment.
Scholar One
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