KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS outcomes; the Motor Vehicles Department on crashes, Kerala Tourism on arrivals, Suchitwa Mission on waste, the ICMR on diabetes, not from the author and not from the program. Second, where a number is contested or method-dependent, the text says so and uses a range rather than a false precision; the diabetes prevalence, for instance, is given as ‘about one in four adults’ because the exact figure varies by study and method. Third, every figure is dated, because a current figure is the only kind worth planning against; all are current as of May 2026 and will need refreshing as new official data appears. This matters because the framework’s credibility rests on the gap between two kinds of number: the large, measured, third-party problem on one side, and the small, computable verification cost on the other. If the problems were exaggerated or the costs understated, the argument would collapse. So both are sourced and both are stated conservatively, problems from official measurement, costs from published inference pricing, precisely so that the comparison between them can bear the weight the whole book places on it. HOW TO READ PART TWO Each program chapter opens from the documented problem in the table above, then 109