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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Economist and member of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, Dr K. P. Kannan, has said that Kerala needs to drum up a consensus on insight into and directions of growth if it is to achieve economic development and social progress.

Delivering the V. Rajagopalan Memorial Lecture here, Dr Kannan said on Friday that the fact that development had failed to feature on top of the growth agenda was not serving the interests of the State at all. Remittance income from the West Asian countries had impacted general wage levels and earning patterns leading to high rate of savings, increased purchasing power and rapid growth of the service sector.

While the State continued to be blissfully unaware of its own strengths, high unemployment levels and the relatively small size of land under irrigation have cast their long shadows on potential growth prospects.

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