Investment Opportunities India/Kerala

"India is well positioned for the information age. Given the right investments   in education, technology, infrastructure and the Internet, India can become a software superpower. India has an excellent university system. Its computer scientists are among the leaders of companies world-wide. Its technology centres in Bangalore, Pune and other places are well respected. Its corporations are at the cutting edge of technology development and deployment"

BILL GATES.

"There is a lot we can do. We must use science to find solutions for people without regard to their income. We know our future depends on the right kind of partnership with India, specially in information technology, the world´s newest and fastest growing economy"

BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT USA

There are alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by Kerala in Southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimentation for many years.Kerala´s villages and towns produced detailed self study reports, "one of the remarkable achievements in democracy in the modern world", in which "people have collected and analyzed information about their own communities in a way that leads to serious and meaningful discussions about how to make thing better." And these are not just abstract discussions: forty percent of Kerala´s state budget is allocated to the village level and gets spent according to the locally -produced plans. A combination of land reforms-land reforms, female education, social welfare, workers rights have given Kerala  a rather remarkable social profile, unique in India and almost unprecedented in the third world.
Here are some crucial indicators of Kerala:

• The lowest infant mortality rate in India
• Highest literacy rate in India
• Best wages and working conditions in India
• Highest per- capita nutritional status
• Best social security for the elderly, workers in the informal sector, in India
• Highest awareness in gender equality
• The highest per-capita savings rate in India
• The highest record of birth control amongst men and women
• The highest per-capita consumption of soaps, detergents, cosmetics, lingerie and other consumable durables.