Human Development: A Comparative Analysis in Democratic vs. Autocratic Regimes of Pakistan

Abstract

Human development is a topic that is one of the main agenda of the today’s world as well as for policy makers. This study is an effort to explore further this dimension by employing time series data over the span of 36 years from year 1980 to 2015 for Pakistan. We used Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) techniques for long and short run empirical analysis to compare the autocratic and democratic regimes in context of human development. Moreover, an index for inclusive growth is constructed by combining multi variables and then its relation with human development is established. It is found that autocracy and trade openness could not improve the level of human development in the country.