The volume explores how the southern engines, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. It looks at their development experiences, and examines how these could provide useful lessons to the developing world

Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on...