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1. EFNA Network Conference Highlights Research, Best Practices, Reforms

   Fraser Insight, Fall 2021 Dozens of members and partners of the EFNA Network representing 24 organizations, 17 states and territories, and three countries participated in the Institute’s annual EFNA Network Conference in Dallas. It was the first in-person ...

2. Canada slipping in terms of economic freedom

   Canada dropped to 14th in the new Economic Freedom of the World report, down slightly from 13th the previous year. ...

3. Economic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual Report

   The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter ...

4. Economic Freedom Promotes Upward Income Mobility

   The costs of government regulation, including labour regulations such as licencing and accreditation, represent a real barrier for Canadians—especially low-income Canadians—trying to move up the income ladder, finds a new study released today by the ...

5. The Determinants of Subnational Economic Freedom: An Analysis of Data for Seven Countries with Implications for Optimal Jurisdiction Size

   It is now well-established that countries, states, and provinces with better institutions, as measured by the indices published in the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) and Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA), have greater ...

6. For freedom’s sake, rate Hong Kong

   The Heritage Foundation has dropped Hong Kong from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. ...

7. Atlantic provinces addiction to big government suppresses economic growth

   Sweden compensates for its big government with an open free-market economy and business-friendly laws. ...

8. New Brunswick’s waning economic freedom part of region-wide crisis

   In 2019, government spending equaled a remarkable 55 per cent of Atlantic Canada's economy. ...

9. Economic Freedom of North America 2020

   Economic Freedom of North America 2020 is the sixteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2018, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and ...

10. Economic freedom under threat globally

    Appeared in National Newswatch, September 10, 2020 Two troubling questions lurk behind the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2020 Economic Freedom of the World report, released Sept. 10. This year’s report is based on 2018 data (the most recent available) ...