Mass Education-led Growth and Non-agrarian Villages: Long-term Results of the Kerala ModelFootnote

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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