Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone?

Economic Freedom, Economic Growth And Governments Tax Revenue In (MENA)

Aid, Economic Freedom, and Growth

Foreign aid has often been intended by donors to entice recipient nations into policy and institutional reforms favorable to private sector economic development. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aid and changes to economic freedom in recipient nations over the 1990–2000 decade. The evidence is mixed. In general, we find that foreign aid has no significant effect on economi...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?

Chapter 2 : Economic Freedom , Investment , and Growth

Since the time of Adam Smith, the topic of cross-country differences in income levels and growth rates has generated both extensive and heated debate. Many economists have argued that free economies—those that rely primarily on market arrangements—will outperform those that rely more extensively on government intervention and political direction. Is this proposition really true? The Economic Fr...

Economic Freedom and World Economic Growth : Evidence and Implications

The purpose of this study is to explain the statistical variation in economic growth rates in a broad cross-section of countries, over the period 1980-99. This problem will be addressed within the framework of the so-called “growth-regression” approach, which seeks to explain this variation by relating economic growth to a list of potential explanatory variables. A large number of studies publi...