%T  Democracy, Democratization, and Development in Post-Cold War Africa (1990-2012)
%9  Research Articles
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%J  Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
%R  10.12944/CRJSSH.1.2.02
%P  60-67
%V  1
%N  3
%U  journalofsocialsciences.org/article/10/
%8 - November 22,2018
%x - <b>Abstract:</b>This research project addresses the question of whether democracy would be better than any other political systems to promote development. It attempts to find out whether democracy and democratization have led to a better economic performance in democratic and democratizing countries in Africa. Using data on development from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in combination with data on regime characteristics from the Polity IV Project and Freedom House, this research project finds that democracy has weak statistical correlations with development, as indicated by the Human Development Index (HDI) and the gross national income (GNI) per capita of the fifty and so African countries since the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless, this study also finds that democratizing countries seem to have better economic performances than the other African countries.
%0 - Journal Article
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%@ - 0125-895