IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/devchg/v23y1992i1p101-146.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Absorbing External Shocks: The Gulf Crisis, International Migration Linkages and the Indian Economy, 1990 (with special reference to the impact on Kerala)

Author

Listed:
  • Ashwani Saith

Abstract

The paper analyses the impact of the Gulf crisis on the Indian economy as a whole, on the state of Kerala which was the origin of the majority of the Indian migrants in Kuwait and Iraq, and on the returning migrants them‐ selves. The scale of the disturbances is estimated both with respect to the labour market, as well as the flow of remittances. Alternative policy responses are discussed, especially in the context of the Kerala economy, and the problem is viewed separately from the vantage point of the returning migrants, as well as that of the State Government. The effects of the crisis become more acute as the focus shifts from the level of the macroeconomy, to the state of Kerala, to the migrants themselves.

Suggested Citation

  • Ashwani Saith, 1992. "Absorbing External Shocks: The Gulf Crisis, International Migration Linkages and the Indian Economy, 1990 (with special reference to the impact on Kerala)," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 23(1), pages 101-146, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:23:y:1992:i:1:p:101-146
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1992.tb00440.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1992.tb00440.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1992.tb00440.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Saith, A., 1991. "Adding injury to insult : a first estimate of financial losses of Indian migrant workers fleeing the Gulf crisis, 1990," ISS Working Papers - General Series 18826, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Richard P. C. Brown & John Conneil, 1993. "The Global Flea Market: Migration, Remittances and the Informal Economy in Tonga," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 24(4), pages 611-647, October.
    2. Prema Ann Kurien, 1994. "Non‐economic Bases of Economic Behaviour: The Consumption, Investment and Exchange Patterns of Three Emigrant Communities in Kerala, India," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 25(4), pages 757-783, October.
    3. Puri, Shivani. & Ritzema, Tineke., 1999. "Migrant worker remittances, micro-finance and the informal economy : prospects and issues," ILO Working Papers 993576093402676, International Labour Organization.
    4. K. P. Kannan & K. S. Hari, 2020. "Revisiting Kerala’s Gulf Connection: Half a Century of Emigration, Remittances and Their Macroeconomic Impact, 1972–2020," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(4), pages 941-967, December.
    5. repec:ilo:ilowps:357609 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Sandra Sideri, 1993. "Restructuring the Post‐Cold War World Economy: Perspectives and a Prognosis," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 24(1), pages 7-28, January.
    7. Irudaya S. Rajan & Pooja Batra & Reddy Sai Shiva Jayanth & Tharatha Moolayil Sivadasan, 2023. "Understanding the multifaceted impact of COVID‐19 on migrants in Kerala, India," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 41(1), January.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:23:y:1992:i:1:p:101-146. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0012-155X .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.