Economic Freedom and Per Capita Income

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Economic Freedom and Per Capita Income
2003 GDP per Capita (in Purchasing Power Parities)
Source World Bank, World Development Indicators
online, available by subscription at
www.worldbank.org/data Central Intelligence
Agency, The World Factbook 2003 for the following
countries Bahamas, Burma, Cuba, Iraq, Israel,
Libya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Qatar, Taiwan,
Serbia-Montenegro, United Arab Emirates and Marc
A. Miles, Edwin J. Feulner, and Mary Anastasia
OGrady, 2005 Index of Economic Freedom
(Washington, D.C. The Heritage Foundation and
Dow Jones Company, Inc., 2005), available at
www.heritage.org/index.
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Improvement in Economic Freedom and Economic
Growth
Average GDP Growth Rates (1995-2003)
Biggest Improvement
Smallest Improvement
Improvement in Economic Freedom (1997-2005)
Note 137 countries were observed. Sources World
Bank, World Development Indicators Online,
available by subscription at www.worldbank.org/dat
a Marc A. Miles, Edwin J. Feulner, and Mary
Anastasia OGrady, 2005 Index of Economic Freedom
(Washington, D.C. The Heritage Foundation and
Dow Jones Company, Inc., 2005), available at
www.heritage.org/index.
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Freer Trade Policy Associated with Higher GDP per
Capita Growth
GDP per Capita Growth (, 1995-2003)
Trade Policy Score Change (1997-2005)
Sources World Bank, World Development Indicators
Online, available by subscription at
www.worldbank.org/data Marc A. Miles, Edwin J.
Feulner, and Mary Anastasia OGrady, 2005 Index
of Economic Freedom (Washington, D.C. The
Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones Company,
Inc., 2005), available at www.heritage.org/index.