2. 1 Economic Freedom of the World: 2004 Annual Report Fraser Institute Policy Briefing July 15 2004

3. 2 THANK YOU FOR COMING! The key to changing policy in the world is changing the climate of opinion about what works and what does not work in encouraging world development The key to changing the climate of opinion is providing the widest possible audience with good information about the causes of development and under-development

4. 3 Economic Freedom of the World Project Objective: find a way to measure economic freedom and explore the connection between it and other variables 20 year project Led by Professor Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman and Michael Walker Involved 100 of the worlds top scholars

5. 4 What is The Economic Freedom of the World Index? u An annual compilation of data representing factors which make a country economically free u Authors: James Gwartney and Robert Lawson u A compendium of 38 government policies affecting economic freedom based on objective data or independent surveys u A ranking of 123 countries representing 91% of the worlds population according to the extent to which they permit their citizens to be economically free u Now a collaboration of Institutes in 62 different countries

6. 5 What is Economic Freedom Individuals have economic freedom when property they acquire without the use of force, fraud, or theft is protected from physical invasions by others and they are free to use, exchange, or give their property as long as their actions do not violate the identical rights of others. An index of economic freedom should measure the extent to which rightly acquired property is protected and individuals are engaged in voluntary transactions. James Gwartney et al. 1996

7. 6 Components of The Economic Freedom of the World Index Size of government and taxation Private property and the rule of law Soundness of Money Trade regulation and tariffs Regulation of business, labour and capital markets Based entirely on objective or third party data from 123 countries

8. 7 Talk about making a difference …

9. 8 African Research Center for Public Policy and Market Process, Kenya Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER), Albania Alternate Solutions Institute, Pakistan Association for Liberal Thinking, Turkey Association pour la Liberté Economique et le Progrès Social (ALEPS), France Cato Institute, United States of America Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge (CEDICE), Venezuela Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED), Montenegro Center for Free Enterprise, Korea Center for Politiske Studier, Denmark The Center for Research and Communication, Philippines Centre for Civil Society, India Centre for the New Europe, Belgium Centro Einaudi, Italy Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo A.C., Mexico Centro de Investigación y Estudios Legales (CITEL), Peru Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales, Guatemala Centrum im. Adama Smitha, Poland The Estonian Institute for Open Society Research, Estonia The F.A. Hayek Foundation, Slovak Republic The Fraser Institute, Canada Free Market Centre, Serbia The Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa, South Africa Fundación DL, Colombia Fundación Economía y Desarrollo, Inc., Dominican Republic Fundación Libertad, Argentina Fundación Libertad, Panamá Fundación Libertad, Democracia y Desarrollo, Bolivia Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research, Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, Israel Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria Institute of Business, Trinidad and Tobago The Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana The Institute of Economic Affairs, United Kingdom Institute of Economic Analysis, Russia Institute of Economic Studies, Iceland The Institute of Economics, Croatia Institute of Public Affairs, Australia Institute of Public Policy Analysis, Nigeria Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economía Política, Ecuador Instituto Liberal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo, Chile Instituto para la Libertad y el Análisis de Políticas, Costa Rica Liberales Institut, Germany Liberales Institut, Switzerland Liberální Institut, Czech Republic Lithuanian Free Market Institute, Lithuania Making Our Economy Right (MOER), Bangladesh The Nassau Institute, Bahamas The New Zealand Business Roundtable, New Zealand Open Republic Institute, Ireland The Pathfinder Foundation, Sri Lanka Romania Think Tank, Romania Scientific Research Mises Center, Belarus Society for Disseminating Economic Knowledge: "New Economic School- Georgia," Georgia Szazadveg Policy Research Center, Hungary TIGRA®, Austria Timbro, Sweden The Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research, Ukraine DLetzeburger Land, Luxembourg DLetzeburger Land, Luxembourg The Institute for Development of Eco­ nomics and Finance, Indonesia Bureau dAnalyse dIngenierie et de Logiciels (BAILO), Ivory Coast Member Institutes of Economic Freedom of the World Network

10. 9 Sample of Press Coverage for Fraser Institute Economic Freedom of the World 2003 Calgary Herald Edmonton Journal Globe and Mail La Presse National Post Toronto Star Ottawa Citizen Ottawa Sun Economist Info Bae, Argentina AFX-Asia Asia Pulse (3 article) ChannelnewsAsia Bahamas Paper Nassau Guardian Nassau Tribune Tribune, Bahamas Barbados Advocate People's Daily, China South China Morning Post Xinhua, China (3 articles) La Republica, Costa Rica (2 articles) Portafolio, Colombia Economia, Costa Rica La Nacion, Costa Rica La Republica, Costa Rica La Nacion, Costa Rica El Financiero, Ecuador Baltic News, Europe Deutsche Presse-Agentur World Markets, Europe Agence France Presse, France (2 articles) (2 articles) Focus, Germany Frankfurter Asia Times, Hong Kong Factiva, Hong Kong Hong Kong Imail Inter Press Service News Agency, Hong Kong Hong Kong Hindu, India Nationwide International News, India Dong-a Ilbo, Korea Hankook Ilbo, Korea JoongAng Daily, Korea Korea Times Kukmin Daily, Korea Kyunghyang Daily News, Korea Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea Segye Times, Korea Seoul Economic Daily Yonhap News, Korea La Sentinelle, Mauritius L'Express, Mauritius Business Story, New Zealand Dominion Post, New Zealand (2 articles) Evening Standard, New Zealand National Business Review, New Zealand (2 articles) (2 articles) Nelson Mail, New Zealand New Zealand Herald (3 articles ) News, New Zealand Northern Advocate, New Zealand Sunday Star Times, New Zealand La Prensa, Panama Panama America Aaaii ii-ioaeiaio, Russia Arehtctbo Muk, Russia Hobocth Kutar, Russia Danas, Serbia Pregled, Serbia Factiva, Taiwan Central News Agency, Taiwan London Times Christian Science Monitor Reforma

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12. 11 Introducing the 2004 Economic Freedom of the World Index Results

13. 12 Overall Economic Freedom Index and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

14. 13 The top ten and how they got there Source: The Fraser Institute.

15. 14 Countries having significant improvement since 1970 Source: The Fraser Institute.

16. 15 Countries having significant deterioration since 1970 Source: The Fraser Institute.

17. 16 Overall Economic Freedom Index and the Bottom Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

18. 17 Economic Freedom Over Time Source: The Fraser Institute.

19. 18 Economic Freedom in Canada

20. 19 Size of Government and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

21. 20 Size of Government and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

22. 21 Legal System and Property Rights and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

23. 22 Legal System and Property Rights, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 8 th

24. 23 Legal System and Property Rights, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 14 th

25. 24 Legal System and Property Rights and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

26. 25 Judiciary Independence, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 7 th

27. 26 Judiciary Independence, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 15 th

28. 27 Judiciary Independence and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

29. 28 Impartial Courts, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Impartial Courts, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 7 th

30. 29 Impartial Courts, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Impartial Courts, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 21st

31. 30 Impartial Courts and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

32. 31 Sound Money and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

33. 32 Sound Money and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

34. 33 Freedom to Trade Internationally and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

35. 34 Freedom to Trade Internationally and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

36. 35 Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

37. 36 Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

38. 37 Credit Market Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

39. 38 Credit Market Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

40. 39 Labor Market Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

41. 40 Labor Market Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

42. 41 Business Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

43. 42 Business Regulations, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 8th

44. 43 Business Regulations, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 9th

45. 44 Business Regulations and the Top Ten Source: The Fraser Institute.

46. 45 Irregular Payments, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Irregular Payments, 2000 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 6th

47. 46 Irregular Payments, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Irregular Payments, 2002 (High Income OECD Countries) Source: The Fraser Institute. 17th

48. 47 Canadas Score 2000 vs 2002 Selected Indicators Source: The Fraser Institute.

49. 48 Why is Economic Freedom Important? Economic rights are fundamental rights in the sense that without them there can be no political freedom or civil freedoms They are a prerequisite for growth and development They are a prerequisite for broader human development

50. 49 The impact on economic growth and development

51. 50 Income (per person) of the Bottom Ten Income (per person) of the Bottom Ten Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

52. 51 Income (per person) of the Top Ten Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

53. 52 Per Capita Income and Economic Freedom Quintile Least Free …….. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

54. 53 Growth in Real GDP Per Capita and Economic Freedom Quintile Least Free ……………..….. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

55. 54 New Research: Economic Freedom, Investment, and Growth

56. 55 Regressions: Economic Freedom and the Productivity of Investment Source: The Fraser Institute.

57. 56 Regressions: Changes in Economic Freedom and Economic Growth Source: The Fraser Institute.

58. 57 Economic Freedom and Investment Per Worker, 1980-2000 Source: The Fraser Institute.

59. 58 Economic Freedom and Total and Private Investment as a Share of GDP Source: The Fraser Institute.

60. 59 Economic Freedom and Growth in Per Capita GDP, 1980-2000 Source: The Fraser Institute.

61. 60 Economic Freedom,the Poor, and Inequality

62. 61 Human Poverty Index, 2001, and Economic Freedom Quintile Least Free …………..…. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; United Nations Development Programmme, Human Development Indicators 2003 (Online), http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2003/indicator/index.html http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2003/indicator/index.html (accessed on June 16, 2004).

63. 62 Income Inequality, 1998-2002 Least Free …….. Most Free Percent of income accruing to the Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

64. 63 Income Share of the Poorest 10% and Economic Freedom Least Free …….. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online).

65. 64 Per Capita Income of Poorest 10% and Economic Freedom Least Free …….. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

66. 65 Economic Freedom, Other Freedoms and Democracy

67. 66 Economic Freedom Versus Corruption 10 =highly corrupt and 0 =highly clean Least Free ………….. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2003 (Online).

68. 67 Political Stability and Economic Freedom Quintile Least Free ………..… Most Free

69. 68 Economic Freedom and Political Rights ten representing the highest degree of political rights and zero the lowest Least Free …… Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; Freedom House, Freedom in the World Country Ratings, 1973-2003 (Online).

70. 69 Economic Freedom and Civil Liberties ten representing the highest degree of civil liberties and zero the lowest Least Free …… Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; Freedom House, Freedom in the World Country Ratings, 1973 to 2003 (Online).

71. 70 The impact of Economic Freedom on the UNs Human Development Index and other indicators of well-being

72. 71 Human Development Index, 2001, and Economic Freedom Quintiles Least Free ……………. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; United Nations Development Programmme, Human Development Indicators 2003 (Online), Sources: The Fraser Institute; United Nations Development Programmme, Human Development Indicators 2003 (Online), available at http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/index_indicators.html (accessed on June 15, 2004).

73. 72 Life Expectancy at Birth and Economic Freedom Quintiles Least Free ……………. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

74. 73 Infant Mortality and Economic Freedom Quintile Least Free ………..…. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

75. 74 Adult Mortality (2000) and Economic Freedom Quintile Least Free ………..…. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

76. 75 Economic Freedom and Labor force, children 10-14 (% of age group) Least Free ……………. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

77. 76 Access to Essential Drugs, 1999, and Economic Freedom Quintiles Least Free …………..Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; United Nations Development Programmme, Human Development Indicators 2002 (Online), available at http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/indicator/indicator.cfm?File=index.html http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/indicator/indicator.cfm?File=index.html (accessed on June 17, 2004) http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/indicator/indicator.cfm?File=index.html

78. 77 % of Population Using Improved Water Sources, 2000 Least Free …………….. Most Free Sources: The Fraser Institute; The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004 (Online). (Online).

79. 78 Conclusions Economic Freedom spurs Increased prosperity for all Poverty reduction Other freedoms Reduces Probability of War Quality of life improvements All this can be seen in todays data and lessons from history

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