KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS Appendix F: Evidence dossier This dossier exists so that a reviewer can audit the book’s factual spine in one pass. For each major claim, it names what is asserted, the figure used, the source, and how the claim functions in the argument. It is by intent repetitive with the References and the in-text citations; the redundancy is the point, because a framework that asks a government to act should make its evidence as easy as possible to check and as hard as possible to take on trust. The economic engine CLAIM F I GU RE U SE D SO URC E & RO LE Routine verification is nearly free ~US$0.0000025 / inference (≈₹0.0002) Cloudflare ResNet-50 pricing; floor of the cost argument Hard-case verification is still cheap ~US$0.002 / image (≈₹1.7) Roboflow vision-cost analysis; ceiling for escalations AI cost falls fast ~10× cheaper per year DeepInfra/industry trend; future-proofs the model Exhibit 24 – The cost side of the argument, sourced. 336