India, Brazil and South Africa all need to introduce bold reforms to achieve faster and more inclusive growth and ensure political stability.

This has emerged from a two-year research project on democracy and inclusive growth in India, Brazil and South Africa undertaken by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) in partnership with leading think tanks in India and Brazil.

All three democracies successfully met pressing economic and political challenges in the late 1980s and early 1990s with measures that included a greater role for the market.