Since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. The aim of Dictators, Democrats and Development is to examine how dictators and democrats in three of the nine, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, who share broad similarities with the Rest, built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions.

• 1. Getting growth going is hard and rare


• 2. History as prologue


• 3. Dictators build and sustain pro-growth coalitions


• 4. Dictators incite domestic capitalists to invest


• 5. Selective interventions in rice agriculture


• 6. The state and industrial development


• 7. Technological upgrading


• 8. Democrats, democratic developmental states and growth


• 9. Democracy and corruption


• 10. Lessons from IMT for the Rest

Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor of Economic History, Bryn Mawr College