Nighttime light is artificial so its level should depict—all else being equal—levels of development.
Economic Freedom
July 22, 2024
3:53PM
The government wants to make speech crimes punishable by house arrest, jail time or electronic monitoring.
June 20, 2024
11:30AM
When governments limit economic freedom, citizens find it harder to buy and sell what they want.
May 25, 2024
5:00AM
When more resources are controlled by politicians and the bureaucracy, there's more favouritism and discrimination.
May 19, 2024
4:30AM
The gender wage gap is largely explained by differences in the educational and employment choices of men and women.
April 4, 2024
2:30AM
With no carrots in the form of market incentives, socialist leaders deployed a terrifying array of sticks.
March 19, 2024
9:42AM
The average Singaporean earns about 30 per cent more than the average American.
January 24, 2024
9:30AM
Those who live in the freest jurisdictions in the world earn more than three times as much as those in the least-free.
January 11, 2024
11:17AM
The Economic Freedom of the World index has grown to cover several dozen indicators in 165 countries.
December 5, 2023
10:48AM
The country deregulated markets in the 1990s, privatized state-owned companies, cut spending and reduced taxes.
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