Open AccessHuman Rights and Economic Growth
Author(s) -
Aziz Siddiqui
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the lahore journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1811-5446
pISSN - 1811-5438
DOI - 10.35536/lje.1998.v3.i1.a4
Subject(s) - democracy , human rights , politics , political science , economics , empirical evidence , political economy , law and economics , development economics , positive economics , law , epistemology , philosophy
Is there a conflict between development on the one hand anddemocracy and/or human rights on the other? The issue began to beseriously examined some forty years ago1 and the controversy has simmeredbecause there has been empirical evidence to indicate at least some shorttermvalidity to those who do see a conflict and press the primacy ofgrowth. They take off from premises like Einstein’s, “An empty stomachmakes a poor political adviser.”