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1. 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 ...

2. Baltic states continue march towards markets despite rocky road

   After revolutions swept across Eastern Europe three decades ago, communism was counting its final days in more than two dozen countries on the verge of leaving socialism behind and welcoming a market economy. The former socialist ...

3. The decline in economic freedom in Peru

   Appeared in El Comercio, September 21, 2019 The latest results of the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World report, show that since 2009-2010, Peru’s economic freedom has experienced a decline, although the global average increased. But what is ...

4. The tide of global freedom is receding—but there’s hope

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, January 25, 2019 Is the world losing its taste for freedom as we move further into 2019? Two recent reports confirm the perception that freedom is under attack globally. The Human Freedom Index, a joint project of ...

5. State of the EFNA Network

   This year, Florida captured the top spot from New Hampshire. ...

6. Canada no longer among top 10 most economically free countries

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun, October 6, 2017 Photo courtesy of Canada 2020 In a global ranking of 159 countries and territories, Canada has fallen from the top 10 countries in economic freedom for the first time ever—and things are getting worse. ...

7. Happy 150th to one of the world's most demonstrably successful societies

   I was 15 when Canada turned 100. It was a very exciting time. Expo 67 was underway. The world seemed to be coming to Montreal, where I was growing up. There was background trepidation about the separatist movement in Quebec and the state ...