Competitiveness

Johan Norberg: I often use the figure that a European cow gets $2 a day in subsidies - more than the average income of 2.7 billion people around the world. Now thing have changed. Europe´s cows…

From the Center for Global Development, a new book, 'Reality Check' by Nancy Birdsall and John Nellis:

Land markets that allow access to land—and to buildings—through secure property rights, at transparent prices, and with efficient permitting processes and land tax systems are essential to a good…

State enterprises on average account for 15% of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa and more than 50% of GDP in MENA. In India, more than 40 percent of the capital stock is state-owned. Heavily represented…

The OECD has released its first economic survey of China, which claims that the private sector has become the basis of economic expansion.