I NORMALLY do not give the Heritage Foundation in the United States much attention, but this week they dropped a copy of the the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom report into my pigeon hole at parliament and I read it with great interest and growing concern.
The index has been running for 20 years and uses four areas of national activity to measure "economic freedom" in individual states and regions of the world. These are the "rule of law", "government size", "regulatory efficiency" and "open markets".
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