Thailand's dynamic economic development has earned it a reputation as the "Fifth Tiger" (following on the heels of the superperforming "Four Tigers" - South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong). This is a study of Thailand's development experience since 1955.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Historical Roots of Modern Policy; Chapter 3 Political Instability and Development Disarray: 1945-1957; Chapter 4 Despotic Paternalism and Purposive Development: 1958-1972; Chapter 5 Democracy and Reaction: Orthodoxy in Partial Eclipse, 1973-1979; Chapter 6 Structural Adjustment, Quasi-Democracy, and the Birth of the Fifth Tiger; Chapter 7 The Fifth Tiger at Its Birth;