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From 2017. Knowing Canada, this finding is not good news for us and our economic future...
25 July 2017
According to a new analysis from the Danish Institute of Human Rights, investment in freedom and participation rights might have positive impacts on economic growth.
By investing in human rights, the economic growth rate of a country is likely to increase.
This is one of the key findings from the analysis “ Human Rights and Economic Growth ”, in which researchers from the Institute investigate how freedom and participation rights interact with economic growth.
“Using a dynamic panel data estimation method on 167 countries between the years 1981 to 2011, we can see that the rights to freedom of speech, freedom and assembly and association and electoral self-determination have a significant positive effect on economic growth”, says co-author Stinne Skriver Jørgensen.
No trade-off
According to Stinne Skriver Jørgensen, observers have argued that investments in human rights are a burden on economic growth. But this, she argues, is wrong:
Human rights have a positive effect on economic growth
According to a new analysis from the Danish Institute of Human Rights, investment in freedom and participation rights might have positive impacts on economic growth.
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25 July 2017
According to a new analysis from the Danish Institute of Human Rights, investment in freedom and participation rights might have positive impacts on economic growth.
By investing in human rights, the economic growth rate of a country is likely to increase.
This is one of the key findings from the analysis “ Human Rights and Economic Growth ”, in which researchers from the Institute investigate how freedom and participation rights interact with economic growth.
“Using a dynamic panel data estimation method on 167 countries between the years 1981 to 2011, we can see that the rights to freedom of speech, freedom and assembly and association and electoral self-determination have a significant positive effect on economic growth”, says co-author Stinne Skriver Jørgensen.
No trade-off
According to Stinne Skriver Jørgensen, observers have argued that investments in human rights are a burden on economic growth. But this, she argues, is wrong: