KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS – Verification proves materially more expensive or less accurate in the field than assumed, undermining the economic case. THE DISCIPLINE OF A REAL PILOT A genuine pilot names its success and failure conditions before it begins, measures against a baseline set before launch, hands the assessment to someone with no stake in the outcome, and publishes the result whatever it is. On these terms the most a body risks is under a crore of rupees and one year, in exchange for a published, independent answer to the only question that matters: does the loop change behaviour, cheaply, here. A negative answer, bought this cheaply and this honestly, is worth having too. 348