TY - BOOK AU - Jeffrey Robin TI - Politics Women & Well-being SN - 9780195656220 U1 - 306.095483 JEF-P PY - 2001/// PB - Oxford University Press KW - Femmes -- Inde -- Kerala (Inde) -- Conditions sociales. Femmes et politique -- Inde -- Kerala (Inde) Kerala (Inde) -- Conditions sociales. N2 - The recent history of Kerala proves that a politically active population, in which women have some degree of autonomy, can force the adoption of policies that promote better health and longer life. Kerala achieved the best quality-of-life figures in India during a time when the people of the state had a per capita income below the national average. For 25 years, development experts have pondered a Kerala model of economic development ER -