Introduction / Lawrence E. Harrison
Some reflections on culture and development / Peter L. Berger
Explaining Botswana's success / Stephen R. Lewis, Jr.
Culture and development: questions from South Africa / Ann Bernstein
Culture of development in a southwestern Nigerian town / Elisha P. Renne
PART II. CONFUCIAN COUNTRIES
China's cultural renaissance / Tu Weiming
Japanese culture and postwar economic growth / Yoshihara Kunio
Values and development in Singapore / Chua Beng-Huat
Market development, political change, and Taiwanese cultures / Robert P. Weller
India: how a rich nation became poor and will be rich again / Gurcharan Das
Egypt as a model of development for the world of Islam / Bassam Tibi
Cultural matters and developmental dilemmas in Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner
Two halves did not make a whole: Pakistan before and after Bangladesh / F.S. Aijazuddin, with a response by Adil Najam
Turkey: torn between two civilizations / Yilmaz Esmer
The political values of development: the case of Argentina / Mariano Grondona
Importance of culture: the Brazilian case / Maria Lucia Victor Barbosa
Economic development and the evolution of national culture: the case of Chile / David E. Hojman
Mexico: the camel and the needle / Miguel Basáñez
Productive values and poverty in Venezuela / Luis Ugalde
PART VI. ORTHODOX / EASTERN EUROPE
Which past matters? Culture and economic development in Eastern Europe after 1989 / Janos Matyas Kovacs
Timeless identity versus another final modernity: identity master myth and social change in Georgia / Irakli Chkonia
Tale of two regions: Novgorod and Pskov as models of symbolic development / Nicolai N. Petro
Cultural change and continuity in the transition from communism: the Russian case / Archie Brown
Scene from a fast-food restaurant: signs of the times in black America and the path beyond / John McWhorter
Ireland as the Celtic tiger: how did it happen? / Dick Spring
Long and winding road: the Italian path to modernization / Matteo B. Marini
Culture and the pursuit of success: the case of Québec in the twentieth century / Daniel Latouche
Spanish transition: 1975-82 / Carlos Alberto Montaner
Strong governance and civic participation: some notes on the cultural dimension of the Swedish model / Dag Blanck, Thorleif Pettersson.
