Kerala Rising: From Exporting People to Exporting Ideas · Page 337 of 353

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

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
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