Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Development -- Business Development -- Growth during industrial development, agricultural growth, protoindustrialization and trade, role of political institutions, culture - nationalism and technology -- East Asian experience : Japan and China, Neoclassical view, Taiwan and Korea -- Sub-Saharan Africa : Pre and post colonial era, patron-client political; structure, urban-biased policy, migration, risk management and lineage groups, fertility, demographic transition -- South Asia : Pre- and post independence in India, population growth and unemployment, poverty, dependence on agriculture, religion and caste, gender bias, education -- Latin America : Emergence of Spain, colonial period, independence and trade, import-substitution industrialization, globalization and IMF, inflation, population growth, commitment problem -- Middle east and north Africa : Economy in pre and post colonial era, petroleum and exports, non-petroleum exporters -- Economies in transition- socialist to market : Economic systems, economic performance of socialism, Russian experience, Chinese experience, reform, sustainable growth -- Efflorescence,impact of colonization, role of state, democracy