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Government must step back from energy markets to lower prices

Summary: For a short period, around the turn of the millennium, the UK energy market was highly competitive, offering choice … Continue reading “From Nationalisation to State Control – The Return of Centralised Energy Planning”
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Poorest hit hardest by consumption taxes, new research shows

Summary The poorest twenty per cent of households in Britain spend an average of £1,286 per year on ‘sin taxes’, … Continue reading “Aggressively Regressive: The ‘sin taxes’ that make the poor poorer”
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Palm oil production could be key in solving rising food costs

Summary: After many years of flat-lining, world food prices rose dramatically in the last years of the first decade of … Continue reading “Commercial Agriculture: Cure or curse? Malaysian and African experience contrasted”
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The latest edition of this annual report, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs

Executive Summary: Economic Freedom of the World The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to … Continue reading “Economic Freedom of the World 2013 Annual Report”