Research

New IEA research finds a market-oriented anti-poverty policy could lead to families being £750 a month better off

Executive Summary: In the past intellectual movements promoting free trade in particular and a free economy more generally were regarded … Continue reading “Redefining the Poverty Debate – Why a War on Markets is No Substitute for a War on Poverty”
Research

Trade expert Sushil Mohan, in a paper published by the IEA, argues that non-tariff barriers are an important impediment to trade for less developed countries and need to be brought to the forefront of the trade debate.

Non-tariff barriers are an important impediment to trade for less developed countries. Such barriers can be very high on both … Continue reading “Barriers to prosperity – developing countries and the need for trade liberalisation”
Economic Affairs

We need an entirely new approach to regulation across the financial sector which is based on transparency, market discipline and simple and stable legal frameworks

Subscribe to Economic Affairs Main articles Editorial Statement – a new beginning for Economic Affairs (pages 4–5) by Philip Booth … Continue reading “Financial Regulation: The Need for a Revolution (Vol. 32.3)”

The latest edition of this annual report, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs

Executive summary: The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions … Continue reading “Economic Freedom of the World 2012 Annual Report”