KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS The budgets and values at stake CLAIM F I GU RE U SE D 6,000–7,500 TPD; Waste spend is ₹177 cr in one large SBM-U phase SO URC E & RO LE Invest Kerala; Suchitwa Mission Road crashes are costly 3,733 deaths (2025); ~3–5% of GDP nationally Kerala MVD/Police; World Bank Tourism is a major sector ₹45,054 cr (2024); 2.58 cr arrivals (2025) Kerala Tourism; TMV Diabetes burden is heavy ~23.6% of adults; ~15% controlled ICMR-INDIAB; Kerala NCD studies Diaspora capital is vast Kerala Migration Survey ₹2,16,893 cr 2023; funds patron remittances (2023) model Exhibit 25 – The value side of the argument, sourced. Each dwarfs the corresponding verification cost in Exhibit 24. The precedents and the institutional design CLAIM F I GU RE / F A C T USE D SO URC E & RO LE Kerala closes loops Literacy declared Literacy 18 Apr 1991; KSSP Mission/UNESCO; the backbone central precedent Kudumbashree is a proven loop ~43–45 lakh women; ~2.9 lakh groups; est. 1998 Kudumbashree Mission; the women’seconomy precedent The AI moment First cabinet-level Govt. of Kerala; the 337