Weekly Report - 16 January 2014 (WR-14-02)

ARGENTINA | Plummeting economic freedom. On 13 January the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal released the latest version of their annual Index of Economic Freedom, which placed Argentina 166th out of 178 countries, putting it in the lowest tier of the ranking for the first time. The Index report was scathing of Argentina’s performance in its rankings, pointing out that its overall score dropped by 2.1 points to 44.6, meaning that it has now joined the 15 other nations, such as Cuba and North Korea, which are considered to be economically ‘repressed’.

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