Re: Problems with the Kerala model
Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I was friendly with a guy in the
UN Press Office who’d originally come from Kerala. He told me that
the state’s problem was that high levels of social development raised
expectations which the weak economy couldn’t deliver on. So people
emigrated. He applied this analysis to the collapse of communism in
Eastern Europe - high educational and health levels combined with
bupkes in the material realm meant a lot of dissatisfaction. Better
the American way of keeping the poor uneducated & sick!
Doug