Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia's success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development. This study argues that such Asian 'lesson-making' is a grave mistake in policy-thinking -...

This paper assesses the contribution of software to India's economic development paying particular attention to the role of the software in the absorption of labour and the development of human capital in the Indian economy. India's specialisation in software has been driven by two sorts of wage...