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Freedom works. Lower taxes and limited intervention in the economy don’t just create the space for innovation, growth and prosperity. They also tend to enhance civil liberties and radically improve lives, particularly for people on lower incomes.
Free enterprise has led to richer societies, reducing poverty, and enabling ever more of us to afford to live better and more equal lives in areas as diverse as literacy, child mortality and girls’ schooling - most spectacularly in Hong Kong, Singapore and (more
recently) China.
Economic liberty creates the conditions for faster growth, generating prosperity that, as well as being a noble end in itself, enables us to improve the environment and repair damage.
It’s time we celebrated the record of free societies and lower taxes.
Full list of sources
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Maddison Project Database (2018)
ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-real-gdp-per-capita-across-countries-and-regions?country=OWID_WRL (accessed 22 July 2019)
Page 6 - Extreme poverty. Share of world population (%)
World Bank
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Page 7 - Different measures of poverty. Share of world population (%)
World Bank
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Page 9 - UK mobile and fixed-line telephone subscriptions. Per 100 inhabitants, 1986-2017
World Bank – World Development Indicators
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Page 10 - World supply of calories per day. Per person, 1961-2013
FAO (2017) and various
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Page 11 - Mean world male heights. 1896 and 1996
NCD RisC
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Page 12 - Motor vehicle ownership. Per 1,000 inhabitants, 2014
NationMaster (2014)
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Page 14 - Total paved and unpaved roads. North v. South Korea
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Page 15 - The Koreas at night
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Page 17 - Girls' schooling. Years in school for every 10 years of boys' schooling
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Page 18 - Human development index. 1870-2015
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (HIHD)
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Page 19 - Economic freedom ranking
Heritage Foundation
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Page 20 - Mortality of children under 5
Gapminder and World Bank (2019)
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Page 21 - World literacy rates
Our World in Data based on OECD and UNESCO (2016)
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Page 23 - GDP per capita in selected countries (2011 prices, $US), 1950-2016
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Page 24 - Tax and economic growth
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Page 25 - Government spending and economic growth
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Page 27 - Britain before and after Thatcher
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Page 28 - Freedom in the world
Freedom House
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Page 29 - Press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
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Page 30 - Economic growth and the environment
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Page 31 - Global tree cover
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Page 32 - Sulphur emissions
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Page 33 - Ozone layer hole
NASA
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