Democracy and economic growth

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Democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history. Effects of democracy on economic growth and effect of economic growth on democracy can be distinguished. While evidence of a relationship is irrefutable,^[1] economists' and historians' opinions of its exact nature have been sharply split, hence the latter has been the subject of many debates and studies.^{[citation needed]}