Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- 1. Tracking Development: Design, Process, Organization, and Results / Bernard Berendsen and Roel van der Veen -- 2. Diverging Paths: Explanations and Implications / David Henley and Jan Kees van Donge -- 3. Cross-regional Comparisons in Development: Questions, Approaches, and Challenges / Peter Lewis -- 4. Comparing the Agricultural Performance of Africa and Southeast Asia over the Last Fifty Years / Ton Dietz -- 5. Technocracy and the Institutionalization of Economic Development in Indonesia and Nigeria (1967–1990) / Riwanto Tirtosudarmo -- 6. Elites and Exchange Rate Policy in Indonesia and Nigeria / Ahmad Helmy Fuady -- 7. Population Programmes and Their Implications for Poverty Reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966–1999 / Akinyinka Akinyoade -- 8. The impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Comparing the Experience of Nigeria and Indonesia (1967–1998) / David U. Enweremadu -- 9. Agricultural and Rural Development in Malaysia and Kenya and the Politics of Policy / Joseph M. Fernando -- 10. The Politics of Policy for Poverty Reduction: Comparing Malaysia with Kenya / Othieno Nyanjom -- 11. A Comparison of the Industrial Policies and Outcomes in Kenya and Malaysia / Bethuel K. Kinuthia and Ton Dietz -- 12. Foreign Direct Investment in Kenya and Malaysia / Bethuel K. Kinuthia and Syed Mansoob Murshed -- 13. Differential Supply Responses to Liberalization, and Resultant Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam and Tanzania / Jan Kees van Donge -- 14. The Variation in Output and Marketing of Cashew in Tanzania and Vietnam / Blandina Kilama -- 15. The Textile Industry in Vietnam and Tanzania / Jamal Msami -- 16. Agricultural Policies and Performance in an African and Asian Poor Agrarian Society: Uganda and Cambodia Compared / André Leliveld and Han ten Brummelhuis -- 17. Rhetoric and Reality of Rural Road Building: Two Tales from Cambodia and Uganda / Kheang Un -- 18. (Re-)building Educational Systems as a Contribution to Growth and Well-Being: Comparing Uganda and Cambodia / Leang Un -- 19. Policy and Governance in Africa’s Economic Transformation: Firm Findings and Remaining Questions / David Booth -- Notes on Contributors.

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Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the ‘Tracking Development’ research project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV, both in Leiden, in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia. The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. It tried to answer the question how two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s could diverge so rapidly. Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions? What could Africa learn from Southeast Asian development trajectories? This book has won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014!