Human rights have a positive effect on economic growth

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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:
 
The Elite DGAFF about anything but their sordid beliefs-

Our "elite" are the creepy covert police and their lineage. The least impressive among us sinking the ship while the equally inept politicians allow it to happen, watching our best talent help other nations crush our businesses.

What an East German racket. Our horse and buggy nation was bound to fail, global competition and other nations liberty did the trick.
 
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:
It gets the relationship exactly wrong.
Rights proceed out of economic success. First there is economic success and the rise of the middle class. Having material prosperity, they also want political power to solidify their gains. We see this exact process in China, which went from a brutal dictatorship where everyone was poor to a more capitalist-oriented economy with a rising middle class to claims against the political elite (which have since been stifled). It's the same in any society.
 
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:
It gets the relationship exactly wrong.
Rights proceed out of economic success. First there is economic success and the rise of the middle class. Having material prosperity, they also want political power to solidify their gains. We see this exact process in China, which went from a brutal dictatorship where everyone was poor to a more capitalist-oriented economy with a rising middle class to claims against the political elite (which have since been stifled). It's the same in any society.

I know Canada well, our best years are well behind us. Squashed human rights and lack of Access to Justice carry consequences.

If your theory is to believed than what do we presume about nations with a shrinking Middle Classe?
 
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:
It gets the relationship exactly wrong.
Rights proceed out of economic success. First there is economic success and the rise of the middle class. Having material prosperity, they also want political power to solidify their gains. We see this exact process in China, which went from a brutal dictatorship where everyone was poor to a more capitalist-oriented economy with a rising middle class to claims against the political elite (which have since been stifled). It's the same in any society.

I know Canada well, our best years are well behind us. Squashed human rights and lack of Access to Justice carry consequences.

If your theory is to believed than what do we presume about nations with a shrinking Middle Classe?
They become poorer and poorer. Witness Venezuela where curtailment of private rights led to lack of opportunity, led to exodus of skilled middle class managers to other countries.
But Canada is a far cry from Venezuela. So far.
 

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