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APPENDIX: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS METHODOLOGY THE FREEDOM INDEX

26 May 2022

DO COUNTRIES NEED FREEDOM TO ACHIEVE PROSPERITY? APPENDIX: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS METHODOLOGY THE FREEDOM INDEX The Freedom Index and Prosperity Index are two sepa- The Freedom Index has three sub-indexes—Economic rate indexes that rank one hundred and seventy-four coun- Freedom, Political Freedom, and Legal Freedom—each of tries around the world according to their levels of freedom. [...] TRADE FREEDOM Credendo Group, the Fraser Institute, Freedom House, The Trade Freedom indicator measures a wide variety of the Fund for Peace, the Heritage Foundation, the National trade restrictions: tariffs, quotas, hidden administrative Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Transparency restraints, and controls on exchange rates and the movement International, the United Nations, the V-De. [...] as the social capital and institutions that support the imple- Source of data: “Women, Business and the Law,” World Bank, mentation of these rules. [...] GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY have the independence, and the ability in practice to exer- This indicator captures the level of openness and transpar- cise e!ective checks on, and oversight of, the government. [...] REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS belief, freedom of the press, and freedom of association and This indicator measures the degree to which regulations and assembly.
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