Lokman, You burped enough swagger and came empty on content. What are the sublime conditions for democracy to prosper is purely an academic exercise. There is no hard fast rules inscribed in stones so you could prescribe here - Hold your horses, Hide your saddles, Nepalese it is not time yet! About your pre-conditions, if you scamper through Democracy 101, you will find few more preconditions and exceptions such as why India meets no preconditions and still there is a thieving democracy. Again, it is purely an academic exercise. About Asian Tigers, there are varying thoughts. So do not be concluding so fast. I happen to read a report on somewhere, do not recall properly. It said - It is the population control that brought about the economic success in East Asian that you see today. Provided more resources to lesser number of people, you can repeat the same in any given country.