By the numbers: How China and Taiwan perform in country indexes
Freedom and Prosperity Center
•
02-Nov-2022
The Freedom and Prosperity Center, in partnership with Center for International Private Enterprise and the Heritage Foundation, held a panel discussion at the National Press Club on November 2, 2022.
Panelists representing six different think tanks analyzed China and Taiwan’s performances in key country indexes. The panelists included Dan Negrea of the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center discussing the Freedom and Prosperity Indexes; Eric Hontz of CIPE discussing the Corruption Risk Forecast; Sarah Cook of Freedom House discussing the Global Freedom Index; Tea Trumbic of the World Bank discussing the Women, Business, and the Law Index; and Anthony Kim of Heritage discussing the Index of Economic Freedom.
Senior Director Dan Negrea analyzed China and Taiwan’s performances on the Freedom and Prosperity Indexes. Pointing to historical data, Negrea discussed trends in economic growth in free Taiwan and unfree China, demonstrating how the different approaches to governance have affected prosperity to this day. After the five panelists presented their Indexes, Moderator David Shullman opened the floor to questions from the audience.
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 11/02/2022
Up Next in Freedom and Prosperity Center
-
Introducing the Freedom and Prosperit...
Do countries need freedom to achieve prosperity? We built an index to measure the relationship between the relationship between these two indicators to see whether countries with higher levels of freedom are also more prosperous.
