Religious Faith and Economic Growth: What Matters Most-Belief or Belonging?

There is evidence of a pattern whereby more economic development and higher per capita income is associated with lower religiosity. Communist regimes have a strong negative influence on religiosity,although there are a few remarkable outliers to this trend. Thereis little relationship overall between whether countries are moreor less religious and whether their economics grow quickly orslowly.

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