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[New Report] The 2008 Index of Economic Freedom URL http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/index.cfm The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, US Self-description: "This is the 14th edition of The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. [...] The 2008 Index of Economic Freedom covers 162 countries across 10 specific factors of economic freedom, which are listed below. Chapter 4 explains these factors in detail. High scores approaching 100 represent higher levels of freedom. The higher the score on a factor, the lower the level of government interference in the economy. The 10 Economic Freedoms: * Business Freedom, * Trade Freedom, * Fiscal Freedom, * Government Size, * Monetary Freedom, * Investment Freedom, * Financial Freedom, * Property Rights, * Freedom from Corruption, * Labor Freedom. Taken together, these 10 freedoms offer an empirical depiction of a country's degree of economic freedom. A systematic analysis of the 10 freedoms has demonstrated again this year that economic freedom is the key to creating an environment that allows a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustained economic growth and development to flourish. Economies with higher levels of economic freedom enjoy higher living standards." Site contents: * Review the briefing: What's New?; * Read the Executive Summary; * Explore the Methodology [this web page is missing - ed.]; * Get the Data [download for free, Excel format - ed.]; * Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner on CNBC; * Chapter 1 - Economic Fluidity: A Crucial Dimension of Economic Freedom [by] Carl J. Schramm; * Chapter 2 - Narrowing the Economic Gap in the 21st Century [by] Stephen L. Parente; * Chapter 3 - Globalization Is Making the World a Better Place [by] Guy Sorman; * Chapter 5 - Economic Freedom in Five Regions: Europe, Asia and the Pacific [Hong Kong (2007 Economic Freedom Score: 89.3); Singapore (85.7); Australia (82.7); New Zealand (81.6); Japan (73.6); Taiwan (71.1); S.Korea (68.6); Malaysia (65.8); Thailand (65.6); Kazakhstan (60.4); Mongolia (60.1); Kyrgyzstan (59.9); Fiji (59.8); Sri (Lanka (59.3); Pakistan (58.2); Philippines (57.4); Tajikistan (56.9); Cambodia (56.5); India (55.6); Azerbaijan (55.4); Indonesia (55.1); China (54.0); Nepal (54.0); Uzbekistan (52.6); Vietnam (50.0); Laos (49.1); Bangladesh (47.8); Turkmenistan (42.5); Burma (40.1); N.Korea (3.0).] Americas, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa. URL http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/index.cfm Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.heritage.org/research/features/index/index.cfm Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO/Business * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential -------------------------------------------------------------- Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778 URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html The e-journal [est. Apr 1994] provides free abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with the Asian Studies. The email edition of this Journal has now over 6920 subscribers. The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it abstracts
