The Impact of the Interaction between Economic Growth and Democracy on Human Development: Cross-National Analysis

Authors

Shrabani Saha
Zhaoyong Zhang, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Accounting, Finance and Economics / Finance, Economics, Markets and Accounting Research Centre

RAS ID

14431

Comments

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Saha, S. , & Zhang, Z. (2012). The Impact of the Interaction between Economic Growth and Democracy on Human Development: Cross-National Analysis. Proceedings of Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Annual Conference. (pp. 12). Jakarta, Indonesia. Available here

Abstract

This paper evaluates the effects of economic growth and democracy on human development using panel data over 170 countries for the period 1980-2010. Our results show that democracy enhances human development in any level of economic development. However, economic growth increases human development only in developing countries. The interaction effect between economic growth and democracy shows that democracy increase human development in developing countries where growth level is low.

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