K Ravi Raman

Expert Member, Kerala State Planning Board

K Ravi Raman is an Expert Member of the Kerala State Planning Board. He is the author of Global Capital and Peripheral Labour (2009) and Political Ecospatiality: Livelihood, Environment, and Subaltern Struggles (2024).

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Written by K Ravi Raman

A busy urban street with cars, a motorbike and a truck passing by a neon-lit building at sunset.

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Poverty and development

How Kerala got rich

Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states, now it is now one of the richest. How did Kerala do it?

Tirthankar Roy & K Ravi Raman