Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982 - 2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

development, defined as enhanced well-being and human flourishing, and democracy, defined as accountability to the deliberatively …

. We address this question a bit differently by asking whether more 'egalitarian' forms of democracy matter, given that … rates and lower the death rate. Broader egalitarian processes, measured as egalitarian democracy, however, show the opposite …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …