ABSTRACT
Introduction The most explicit consideration of sustainable growth has been couched in environmental terms (Morris 2002). In the context of India there has also been ongoing concern about the implied political sustainability of growth that is leading to growing inequality between states in a federal political system (Weiner 1999). An interesting and often discussed case study is the question of whether the high levels of human development in Kerala are sustainable, given the state’s low levels of economic growth and burgeoning state government fiscal crisis (Chakraborty 2005).1
