Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development
Twenty years after the revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Arab Spring is again raising some fundamental questions about the place of freedom and entitlement in development. Depending on the balance between free choices and more coerced...
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okr-10986-100882021-04-23T14:02:48Z Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development Chauffour, Jean-Pierre AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE CAPITALISM CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL LIBERTIES CIVIL RIGHTS COERCION CULTURAL RIGHTS DEMOCRACY DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISCRIMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FREEDOM ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC RIGHTS ECONOMIC STAGNATION ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FEMALE EDUCATION FREEDOMS GENDER EQUALITY GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATE HUMAN BEINGS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHTS IMPORTANT POLICY INCOME GROWTH INDIVIDUAL CHOICES INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFLATION RATE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT LIBERTY LONG RUN LONG-RUN GROWTH LONG-TERM GROWTH LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MARKET ECONOMY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE EFFECT PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL FREEDOM POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL LIBERTIES POLITICAL RIGHTS POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SPENDING PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY REDUCING INEQUALITY RESPECT REVOLUTIONS RULE OF LAW SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL SECURITY STATE INTERVENTION STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOLERANCE UNITED NATIONS WELFARE STATE Twenty years after the revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Arab Spring is again raising some fundamental questions about the place of freedom and entitlement in development. Depending on the balance between free choices and more coerced decisions, individual opportunities to learn, own, work, save, invest, trade, protect, and so forth could vary greatly across countries and over time. Reviewing the economic performance of more than 100 countries over the past 30 years, new empirical evidence tends to support the idea that economic freedom and civil and political liberties are the root causes of why certain countries achieve and sustain better economic outcomes. In contrast, entitlement rights do not seem to have any significant effects on long-term per capita income, except for a possible negative effect. These results tend to support earlier findings that, beyond core functions of government responsibility (including the protection of liberty itself), the expansion of the state to provide for various entitlements (including so-called economic, social, and cultural rights) may not make people richer in the long run; it may even make them poorer. 2012-08-13T10:23:05Z 2012-08-13T10:23:05Z 2011-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/14318009/freedom-entitlement-path-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10088 English Economic Premise; No. 59 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research |
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AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE CAPITALISM CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL LIBERTIES CIVIL RIGHTS COERCION CULTURAL RIGHTS DEMOCRACY DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISCRIMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FREEDOM ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC RIGHTS ECONOMIC STAGNATION ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FEMALE EDUCATION FREEDOMS GENDER EQUALITY GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATE HUMAN BEINGS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHTS IMPORTANT POLICY INCOME GROWTH INDIVIDUAL CHOICES INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFLATION RATE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT LIBERTY LONG RUN LONG-RUN GROWTH LONG-TERM GROWTH LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MARKET ECONOMY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE EFFECT PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL FREEDOM POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL LIBERTIES POLITICAL RIGHTS POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SPENDING PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY REDUCING INEQUALITY RESPECT REVOLUTIONS RULE OF LAW SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL SECURITY STATE INTERVENTION STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOLERANCE UNITED NATIONS WELFARE STATE |
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AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE CAPITALISM CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL LIBERTIES CIVIL RIGHTS COERCION CULTURAL RIGHTS DEMOCRACY DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISCRIMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FREEDOM ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC RIGHTS ECONOMIC STAGNATION ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FEMALE EDUCATION FREEDOMS GENDER EQUALITY GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATE HUMAN BEINGS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RIGHTS IMPORTANT POLICY INCOME GROWTH INDIVIDUAL CHOICES INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFLATION RATE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT LIBERTY LONG RUN LONG-RUN GROWTH LONG-TERM GROWTH LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MARKET ECONOMY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE EFFECT PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL FREEDOM POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL LIBERTIES POLITICAL RIGHTS POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SPENDING PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY REDUCING INEQUALITY RESPECT REVOLUTIONS RULE OF LAW SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL SECURITY STATE INTERVENTION STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOLERANCE UNITED NATIONS WELFARE STATE Chauffour, Jean-Pierre Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development |
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Economic Premise; No. 59 |
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Twenty years after the revolutions of
Central and Eastern Europe, the Arab Spring is again raising
some fundamental questions about the place of freedom and
entitlement in development. Depending on the balance between
free choices and more coerced decisions, individual
opportunities to learn, own, work, save, invest, trade,
protect, and so forth could vary greatly across countries
and over time. Reviewing the economic performance of more
than 100 countries over the past 30 years, new empirical
evidence tends to support the idea that economic freedom and
civil and political liberties are the root causes of why
certain countries achieve and sustain better economic
outcomes. In contrast, entitlement rights do not seem to
have any significant effects on long-term per capita income,
except for a possible negative effect. These results tend to
support earlier findings that, beyond core functions of
government responsibility (including the protection of
liberty itself), the expansion of the state to provide for
various entitlements (including so-called economic, social,
and cultural rights) may not make people richer in the long
run; it may even make them poorer. |
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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Chauffour, Jean-Pierre |
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Chauffour, Jean-Pierre |
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Chauffour, Jean-Pierre |
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Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development |
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Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development |
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Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development |
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Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development |
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Freedom, Entitlement, and the Path to Development |
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freedom, entitlement, and the path to development |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/14318009/freedom-entitlement-path-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10088 |
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