http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/09/07/jobs-abroad-support-model-state-in-india Comments for "Jobs Abroad Support 'Model' State in India" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/09/07/jobs-abroad-support-model-state-in-india <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> September 7, 2007 - 09:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> New York Times</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Jobs Abroad Support &#039;Model&#039; State in India</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/world/asia/07migrate.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/world/asia/07migrate.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print</a> </div> <div class="flexinode--41"> <strong>Teaser: </strong><br /> This verdant swath of southern Indian coastline is a famously good place to be poor. People in the state of Kerala live nearly as long as Americans do, on a sliver of the income. They read at nearly the same rates.<br class="clear" /></div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> TRIVANDRUM, India — This verdant swath of southern Indian coastline is a famously good place to be poor. People in the state of Kerala live nearly as long as Americans do, on a sliver of the income. They read at nearly the same rates.<br /><br />With leftist governments here in the state capital spending heavily on health and schools, a generation of scholars has celebrated the “Kerala model” as a humane alternative to market-driven development, a vision of social equality in an unequal capitalist world. But the Kerala model is under attack, one outbound worker at a time.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/09/07/jobs-abroad-support-model-state-in-india#comment Remittances South Asia Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:32:32 -0400 Ana Escalante 4452 at http://www.nextbillion.net