A DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM IS AN ESSENTIAL CONDITION FOR

SUSTAINED ECONOMIC PROGRESS?

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• What is democratic political system?

• Citizen directly involved in decision making

• A research stated: 4 element in democratic

• Free and fair election

• Active participation of citizen in country

• Human right protected

• Rule of laws

• Autocratic / Totalitarianism

• Form of government which one person or political party.

• Absolute control all over the human in the country.

• Is a total dictatorship.

INTRODUCTION

DEMOCRACY - CAPITALIST

• Interrelated

• private sectors are allowed to own assets and this right of ownership provides a POWERFUL INCENTIVES for people to work hard and innovate products

• KOREA (autocratic to democratic)

• U.S (grew rapidly over two centuries)

WHY DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM ?

• More innovations

• Opening up economy

• Transparency of economy

• For long term success

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WHY DEMOCRACY?

• Protection Of The Rights

- Human Rights.

- Civil Rights

-Voting Rights

• Freedoms Of Individuals

• Fair Chance

• Anti-unfavorable right.

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“DEMOCRATISATION AND GROWTH”BY ELIAS PAPAIOANNOU AND GREGORIOS- "within-country" growth effects

- compare economic outcomes before and after the enactment of democratic reforms

- examining annual real per-capita GDP

- shifting - resulted in 1 percent annual increase in GDP- unclear - democratic reform solely responsible for economic

growth?- economic growth may be correlated with democratic reform, the

direction of the causation remains a question.

NON-DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS THAT PROVIDED STRONG ECONOMIES• China, a totalitarian state, has been much more

successful at promoting economic growth than India, a democracy.

• Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, two countries that managed to rapidly spring their countries out of the depression while most democracies continued to suffer for another decade.

CONNECTION BETWEEN POLITICAL SYSTEM & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• it’s not the nature of a country’s political system that determines the course of its economic development - the intelligence of the policies implemented

KOREA

• 26 years of autocratic ascend poverty to prosperity

• Spawning the idea of autocratic were good for development - up to a point!

• “The gem without luster called democracy was meaningless to people suffering from starvation and despair” –Park Chung Hee

• Democracy couldn’t function before a higher level of development achieved

CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION

• Democracy not necessarily lead to growth

• South Korea(1980) – began democratic but the better institution developed due to dictators’ policy choices

DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE

• Democracy is not all “Sweet Child O’ Mine” to every country to apply…..

• Zimbabwe – started democratic governance in 2000 and having failure since then

• Widespread of human rights on elections

• economic - hyperinflation