Not a list of "policies that worked", but a structural story about productivity, sectors and institutions.

Over time, shouldn't democracies stumble towards better rules? The evidence is less comforting.

Beyond cliches about the "Licence Raj" or "too much democracy", we trace a specific failure mode.

Agriculture's GDP share shrinks, but starving it of attention is a good way to derail growth.

Not just constitutional diagrams: we look at how incentives play out in real departments.

High growth, low good-job creation: we connect the dots between macro numbers and sector choices.

Taiwan is not a "model", but comparing it to India makes alternative choices concrete.