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Govindan Parayil
Researcher at United Nations University
Publications - 39
Citations - 1193
Govindan Parayil is an academic researcher from United Nations University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Technological change & Population. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 39 publications receiving 1073 citations. Previous affiliations of Govindan Parayil include NationsUniversity & University of Oslo.
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Mapping technological trajectories of the Green Revolution and the Gene Revolution from modernization to globalization
TL;DR: The dynamics of technology development along the technological trajectories of the Green Revolution and the Gene Revolution could be explicated by the social morphologies of modernization and globalization as discussed by the authors, and the important lessons we learn about how different contexts of innovation in the same technology cluster could evolve into contrasting research policy regimes.
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The Digital Divide and Increasing Returns: Contradictions of Informational Capitalism
TL;DR: Examining two contradictions of ICTs-led economic development—increasing returns and the digital divide concludes that knowledge production is a self-reinforcing cycle that tends to disproportionately reward some and exclude others.
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The "Kerala model" of development: development and sustainability in the Third World.
TL;DR: The Kerala model may be taken as an early prototype of sustainable development because of improvements in the quality of life, environmental stability, social and economic equality, and the decline in political strife.
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The Green Revolution in India: A Case Study of Technological Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconstruct the history of the Green Revolution in India, highlighting the processes of technology transfer and diffusion of knowledge and the institutionalization of a successful agricultural research system.
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Kerala: the development experience. Reflections on sustainability and replicability.
TL;DR: Parayil et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a "Kerala Model" of sustainable development, which is based on the "Kannan model" of poverty alleviation in the state of Kerala.