Abstract
This article describes the impact of democratic governance on human development and growth. The idea of development as freedom is incorporated into the classic debate of democracy’s impact on development. This study is qualitative in nature. Democracy is measured by freedom house political rights and civil liberties. Democratic governance is an important component for economic growth and human development. Moreover, the result indicate that democracy have positive effect on changes in human development .These findings strongly supported the claim that human development is compatible with, and even strengthened by, human freedom and political democracy. Finally these finding also have some important policy implications, suggestions that democracy promotion are important as long as human development, rather than economic growth.