Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123525 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/11/010
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of economic and inequality adjusted human developments. Findings summarily reveal that legal-origin does not explain economic growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law. Our results support the current consensus that, English common-law countries provide for better legal systems that improve conditions for economic growth and human development than French civil-law countries. Portuguese civil-law countries lie between the French-speaking and North African countries, while French sub-Saharan Africa is slightly below the average of Francophone Africa. As a policy implication, results support the benefits of the rule of law and quality of regulation as channels to economic growth and human development.
Subjects: 
Law
economic growth
human development
Africa
JEL: 
I00
K20
K40
O55
P50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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