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1. Economic Freedom of the World: 2019 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 ...

2. China may land outside the world trade system

   Appeared in the Epoch Times, August 27, 2019 Companies globally are developing contingency plans in case China’s behaviour—international aggression, violation of treaties, holding foreigners (including two Canadians) hostage and violent internal ...

3. China—world freedom’s greatest threat

   China's military budget is three-and-a-half times larger than Russia’s. ...

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. China sets debt traps, threatens militarily

   China has already blocked 15 million of its citizens from train and airline travel. ...

6. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2018 Annual Report

   Wherever true economic freedom takes root, it creates opportunity for all by eliminating obstacles to success. Economic freedom is simply the ability of individuals and families to make their own economic decisions and take advantage of opportunities and ...

7. As the world shifted to free markets, poverty rates plummeted

   Life expectancy is 80 years in the freest countries compared to 64 in the least-free countries. ...

8. Canada has lost its competitive advantage over the U.S.

   Say you are a store owner and your competitor across the street offers everything at lower price and higher quality, well, you’re in trouble. If your competitor was far on the other side of the city, things might be a bit better. But ...

9. Economic Freedom of North America 2018

   Economic Freedom of North America 2018 is the fourteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were, in 2016, supportive of economic freedom, the ability ...

10. Rule of law, limited government key to economic freedom in the U.S. and around the world

    Appeared in The Hill, October 4, 2018 The Fraser Institute, a Canadian-based think-tank, recently released its annual Economic Freedom of the World report. Based on data from 2016 (the latest year of available comparable statistics), the report measures ...