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1. Economic Freedom of the World: 2018 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. Indonesia should study Canada’s history of resource development

   Indonesia is at a crossroads for its oil and gas industry. It can let the industry slowly die, or change course and build a dynamic economic force that enhances tax revenues, creates high-paying jobs and boosts the country’s high-tech ...

3. China may balk at Taiwan entry into resurrected TPP

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, April 25, 2018 The next big trade hullabaloo—or at least one of the them, given the topsy-turvy world of international trade—is already fermenting. Which countries will be invited to join the second membership round of ...

4. Where the rule of law weakens, freedom wanes

   Appeared in National Newswatch, February 21, 2018 For the first time in decades, basic human freedom is under attack globally. Journalists and opposition leaders are killed in Russia. China’s Communist Party stifles dissent on the mainland while ...

5. Economic Freedom of North America 2017

   Economic Freedom of North America 2017 is the thirteenth 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 2015, supportive of economic freedom, the ability ...

6. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2017 Annual Report

   The Arab world faces a huge challenge. Although the Arab Spring undoubtedly had a political impulse, in large measure it was driven by economic concerns: sky-high unemployment, particularly for youth; under-employment and lack of quality in the jobs that ...

7. 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. ...

8. Economic Freedom of the World: 2017 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 ...

9. Nationalistic politicians often attack free markets and economic freedom

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, May 10, 2017 As France and Turkey show, populism and the deepening urban/rural split across many often-dissimilar countries represents a dangerous and confusing threat to prosperity as the populist economic urge varies ...

10. Economic freedom has been key to advancement of women worldwide

    Through March, we’ve seen two well-publicized celebrations of freedom, though the architecture of freedom has been little discussed. CNN’s Freedom Week featured clips of people, many of them famous, describing what freedom means to them. ...