Do Democracies Grow Faster? Revisiting the Institutions and Economic Performance Debate
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- Jessica Henson Decker & Jamus Jerome Lim, 2008. "What fundamentally drives growth? Revisiting the institutions and economic performance debate," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(5), pages 698-725.
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Keywords
Economic growth; institutions; democracy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- P51 - Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2007-12-08 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2007-12-08 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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