【英文】菲沙研究所报告：世界经济自由度2022年度报告：香港再次获评为全球最自由经济体（246页）

英文研究报告 2022年09月20日 07:46 管理员

Over the years, the EFW index has become more comprehensive and the available data more complete. As a result, the number and composition of the components and sub-components for many countries vary across time. Tis makes it difcult to directly compare index values from earlier periods with those of later periods. To assist researchers who are interested in a consistent time-series for a particular country and/or longitudinal data for a panel of countries, we have developed the EFW Panel Dataset. Te EFW Panel Dataset is a chain-linked version of the index as described in previous editions (Gwartney, Lawson, Hall, and Murphy, 2021: 16). It uses the most recent year as the base year, and changes in a country’s scores backward in time are based only on changes in components that were present in adjoining years.

It should be noted that the EFW Panel Dataset contains area and summary ratings only for those years in which the country received a regular EFW index rating. Because some data for earlier years may have been updated or corrected, researchers are always encouraged to use the data from the most recent annual report to assure the most reliable fgures. Exhibit 1.4 presents the global average for all 123 nations with complete data since 2000. It shows that the world average fell to 6.84 from 7.00 between 2019 and 2020—a 0.16 point decline. Tis erases a decade’s worth of improvement in the global average and is more than three times larger than the global decline witnessed in the 2008/09 fnancial crisis. Te coronavirus pandemic was undoubtedly a catastrophe for economic freedom.