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ARMENIA RANKS 79 IN FREE COUNTRIES INDEX
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.08.2006 17:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 2006 State of World Liberty Index ranks countries
from most to least libertarian by compiling information from four
freedom indices into one single index. The indices used were: The
Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal, the Frasier Institute/Cato
Institute, Freedom House, Reporters without Borders. The countries
were broken into three criteria: individual freedom, economic freedom
and government size/taxation and averaged.
According to the index, the freest region is Europe whole the freest
country is Estonia. "The world is not free," the experts say. The
world receives a failing score of 56.9% out of 100.
The mangled corpse of the Soviet Union is stretched across the list,
with the Baltic states of Estonia (#1), Lithuania (#16) and Latvia
(#21) all making the top 25 after embracing free market liberalism,
while their neighbor Belarus (#153) and the Asian countries
Turkmenistan (#154) and Uzbekistan (#152) dangle in the bottom
ten. Armenia (#79), Russia (#124), Kazakhstan (#132), Tajikistan (#141)
and Azerbaijan (#137) are also struggling in a post-Soviet world.
North Korea is at the bottom of this list, with a score of 6.2%.
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.08.2006 17:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 2006 State of World Liberty Index ranks countries
from most to least libertarian by compiling information from four
freedom indices into one single index. The indices used were: The
Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal, the Frasier Institute/Cato
Institute, Freedom House, Reporters without Borders. The countries
were broken into three criteria: individual freedom, economic freedom
and government size/taxation and averaged.
According to the index, the freest region is Europe whole the freest
country is Estonia. "The world is not free," the experts say. The
world receives a failing score of 56.9% out of 100.
The mangled corpse of the Soviet Union is stretched across the list,
with the Baltic states of Estonia (#1), Lithuania (#16) and Latvia
(#21) all making the top 25 after embracing free market liberalism,
while their neighbor Belarus (#153) and the Asian countries
Turkmenistan (#154) and Uzbekistan (#152) dangle in the bottom
ten. Armenia (#79), Russia (#124), Kazakhstan (#132), Tajikistan (#141)
and Azerbaijan (#137) are also struggling in a post-Soviet world.
North Korea is at the bottom of this list, with a score of 6.2%.