Table of Content

• Visions


• Missions
• Mission [1]


• Values
• Value [1] Economic Freedom
• Value [2] Personal Choice
• Value [3] Voluntary Exchange
• Value [4] Freedom to Compete
• Value [5] Security of Privately Owned Property


• Goals
• Area 1: Size of Government
• 1A: Government Consumption
• 1B: Transfers and subsidies
• 1C: Government enterprises and investment
• 1Di: Top marginal income tax rate
• 1Dii: Top marginal income and payroll tax rate
• 1D: Top marginal tax rate
• 1: Size of Government
• Area 2: Legal System & Property Rights
• 2A: Judicial independence
• 2B: Impartial courts
• 2C: Protection of property rights
• 2D: Military interference in rule of law and politics
• 2E: Integrity of the legal system
• 2F: Legal enforcement of contracts
• 2G: Regulatory restrictions on the sale of real property
• 2H: Reliability of police
• 2I: Business costs of crime
• 2: Legal Structure and Property Rights
• Area 3: Sound Money
• 3A: Money growth
• 3B: Standard deviation of inflation
• 3C: Inflation: Most recent year
• 3D: Freedom to own foreign currency bank accounts
• 3: Sound Money
• Area 4: Trade
• 4Ai: Revenue from trade taxes (% of trade sector)
• 4Aii: Mean tariff rate
• 4Aiii: Standard deviation of tariff rates
• 4A: Tariffs
• 4Bi: Non-tariff trade barriers
• 4Bii: Compliance costs of importing and exporting
• 4B: Regulatory trade barriers
• 4C: Black market exchange rates
• 4Di: Foreign ownership/investment restrictions
• 4Dii: Capital controls
• 4Diii: Freedom of foreigners to visit
• 4D: Controls of the movement of capital and people
• 4: Freedom to trade internationally
• Area 5: Regulation
• 5Ai: Ownership of banks
• 5Aii: Private sector credit
• 5Aiii: Interest rate controls/negative real interest rates)
• 5A: Credit market regulations
• 5Bi: Hiring regulations and minimum wage
• 5Bii: Hiring and firing regulations
• 5Biii: Centralized collective bargaining
• 5Biv: Hours Regulations
• 5Bv: Mandated cost of worker dismissal
• 5Bvi: Conscription
• 5B: Labor market regulations
• 5Ci: Administrative requirements
• 5Cii: Bureaucracy costs
• 5Ciii: Starting a business
• 5Civ: Extra payments/bribes/favoritism
• 5Cv: Licensing restrictions
• 5Cvi: Cost of tax compliance
• 5C: Business regulations
• 5: Regulation
• 6: SUMMARY INDEX
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