Democracy and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A panel data approach

This paper studies the link between democracy and economic development for 28 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1980-2005 in a panel data framework. A democracy index constructed from the Freedom House indices. A variety of panel data unit root and cointegration tests are applied. The v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaunky, Vishal
Format: Journal Article
Published: Physica-Verlag GmbH und Co. 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50864