The building fiscal stress in the Kerala Model By Sreedev Krishnakumar Kerala will vote to elect a new government tomorrow. The campaign has seen competing promises on welfare and government jobs. For a state, which has taken pride in carving out a governance exceptionalism often portrayed as the Kerala Model, these promises entail an embrace of the nation-wide populism. But such promises will require a reckoning with the state’s fiscal problems. (The full text is too long to be copied and pasted. Please click on the link in the post to read it on the free HT news app)
Kerala will go to the polling booths tomorrow. The campaign has seen competing promises on welfare and jobs. But for a state that takes pride in its economic model, those promises also raise difficult questions about strained public finances. Today’s HT Number […]
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