The 2018 Index of Economic Freedom

Freedom — Not Foreign Aid — Is the Solution to Global Poverty

by Patrick Tyrrell

The 2018 Index of Economic Freedom, an annual study that ranks 180 countries for their economic freedom using hard data, has now been published by The Heritage Foundation.

The results, when combined with poverty data from the World Bank, show that inhabitants of countries who enjoy high levels of economic freedom are far less likely to suffer from abject poverty.

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ECONOMIC FREEDOM IS THE PROVEN ESCAPE HATCH FROM AN OTHERWISE NEVER-ENDING LOOP OF INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY