"to the level of developed nations in 1960". India The mobile phone revolution in India shows how "just one modern instrument" impacts modernization. It is not just the spread of mobile phones but the spread of communication and information. See also Kishore Mahbubani Modernity Chinese Economic Reform India Free Market Larry Summers Poverty David Hale (economist) Paul Krugman References Further Reading on K. Mahbubani Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East and West, Steerforth, 2001, ; Times Editions; 3rd edition, 2004, Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World, Perseus Books Group, 2005, The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World, PublicAffairs, 2013 Further Related Reading Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, The National Interest, 1992 Economy of Asia