"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 ...

Photo courtesy of PBS The relationship between democracy and development is one of the most important debates in political ...

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 ...

By Tunji Olaopa My thesis in this piece is that Nigeria urgently needs a developmental state and a renegotiated terms of ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump’s budget proposes eliminating a number of development and international affairs agencies beyond the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — ending support for a number of ...