In India, government budgets are introduced with fanfare. The latest budget for the State of Kerala was introduced with comments from innovation studies scholars from around the world, including me. Kerala is known, particularly through the writings of Amartya Sen, for achieving high levels of health and education with low levels of average wealth through investment in the people. But a couple of decades of the Knowledge Society have increased the average, along with the gap between the top and bottom of the income distribution. Here are some of the suggestions I made in my comments on the budget on January 23: Cozzens Comments Kerala
The full publication on the event is available as well.
Finding My Place 