Best practices are visible. After all, Asia has copied and even improved hardware. But even the successful societies may not understand the real software fueling their success. Yet some societies, including major nations, which tried instant transformations to democracy have come to grief. So too those societies which tried free-market economics without the right institutional frameworks in place.
Deeper principles explain the success of the developed societies.
A short article like this cannot provide all the answers. But let me suggest three key principles that may be found in the software of success. When capitalism destroyed feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it moved away from aristocracy towards meritocracy. Democracy provided another institutional process for flushing out old elites and churning out new ones. If each Asian society allows its best minds to emerge, flourish and provide leadership, Asia could well take off.