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Economic Convergence in Seven Asian Economies

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  • Haizheng Li
  • Zhenhui Xu

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The impressive economic growth in a select group of Asian economies in the last several decades prompts some to argue that authoritarianism helps rapid economic growth while democracy hampers it. In this paper, we used the panel data approach to test this hypothesis for seven Asian economies, including South Korea, Singapore, and China. Our results reject the strong version of this hypothesis but fail to reject the weak version of it. Specifically, we found insignificant impacts of political freedom but significant effects of economic freedom on advancing economic convergence in these economies.

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  • Haizheng Li & Zhenhui Xu, 2007. "Economic Convergence in Seven Asian Economies," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 11(3), pages 531-549, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:531-549
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00367.x
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