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Human Rights and Economic Liberalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Art Carden  and
Robert A. Lawson
Art Carden
Affiliation:
Rhodes College
Robert A. Lawson
Affiliation:
Auburn University
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Abstract

Using several case studies and data from the Economic Freedom of the World annual report and from the CIRI Human Rights Data Project, we estimate the effect of human rights abuses on economic liberalization. The data suggest that human rights abuses reduce rather than accelerate the pace of economic liberalization.

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economic freedomhuman rightsinstitutionsChiletorture

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Business and Politics , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 2010 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © V.K. Aggarwal 2010 and published under exclusive license to Cambridge University Press 

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