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Democracy Does Cause Growth

Daron Acemoglu; Suresh Naidu; Pascual Restrepo; James A. Robinson · Journal of Political Economy, 127(1), 47–100 · 2019

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Type: Article
Author: Daron Acemoglu; Suresh Naidu; Pascual Restrepo; James A. Robinson
Identifier: DOI 10.1086/700936
Accessed: 2026-09-01
Reliability notes: Abstract read in the NBER working-paper version (w20004): https://www.nber.org/papers/w20004

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DisputedAcemoglu, Naidu, Restrepo and Robinson (2019) estimate that democratisation increases GDP per capita by about 20% in the long run; Eberhardt (2022), allowing the effect to differ across countries, finds a positive average effect at most about half that size.