Freedom and participation rights and growth in Ghana and Poland - a Case Study

It does so by focusing on economic and human rights-related events in two countries: Poland and Ghana.

Both countries have been subject to severe violations of freedom and participation rights during authoritarian rule but have also experienced improvements in respect for human rights in more recent times. This allows an analysis of how both positive and negative changes in respect for freedom and participation rights affect economic growth.

The paper finds that the effects suggested by Koob et al. (2017) are to a large degree reflected in the two countries, and their individual stories show the many ways in which freedom and participation rights can affect growth.

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