"In From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia, Dan Slater and Joseph Wong seek to explain why democracy emerged in some countries, has been tried in others and is unlikely to ...

The United Nations is warning that democracies across Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a "gradual erosion," citing growing political polarization, distrust in institutions, corruption and ...

India can adopt a new path to development, one that no developing country has taken before, wherein its firms come up with world-beating ideas and products and deliver them globally. No large ...

My thesis in this piece is that Nigeria urgently needs a developmental state and a renegotiated terms of engagement with development partners (especially with such multilateral institutions like the ...

Attempts at strengthening democracy have focused too much on building institutions such as the judiciary and electoral systems. While these are all necessary for a healthy democracy, these attempts ...

For a long time, many developing countries have been presented with various external models and suggestions for their development paths.One common argument has been that to achieve prosperity, ...

The busy Shibuya district, Tokyo's commercial and financial hub, in November. After World War II, Japan's elites embraced democracy, and economic growth surged ...