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187 Million Immigrants Have Moved to Freer Countries SHARE
A great benefit of immigration is that it allows people to escape all kinds of tyranny. As George Mason University’s Ilya Somin has written in his excellent
Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, “Empowering more people to vote with their feet can save millions from lives of poverty and oppression, and expand opportunities for meaningful political freedom for many more.” Indeed, immigration has already freed millions of people.
Using the Cato Institute‐Fraser Institute Human Freedom Index and the United Nations Population Division’s international migrant stock data, it is possible to estimate that about 187 million people have moved to freer countries than the ones in which they were born. The average immigrant moving to a freer country moved 70 spots up the Human Freedom Index ranking. This is roughly like moving from Libya to Mexico or from Mexico to the United States.
Classical Liberal Policy Proposals for Singapore SHARE
Singapore is one of the great development success stories of our times, having risen from poverty to prosperity in just a couple of generations. Across a wide array of indicators of human well‐being, its global rankings are also at or near the top. Singapore achieved such progress by embracing high levels of economic freedom.
But it is also somewhat of a development puzzle. Its political system is authoritarian, and it limits civil liberties. High levels of economic freedom are correlated with high levels of personal freedom around the world, but in the Human Freedom Index, Singapore ranks 53rd in terms of personal freedom while ranking 2nd in economic freedom.
Human rights standards on the wane in India Indian journalist with over 50 years of newspaper, news agency and television experience.
12 Apr 2021 Increasing incidents of human rights violations have tarnished the image of the country. Reuters Every passing year brings fresh evidence of decline in India’s human rights standards. In the Human Freedom Index of 2020 India was at the 111th place among 162 countries. In the 2019 index India’s rank was 94.
The HF index, published annually by American think tank Cato Institute and Fraser Institute of Canada since 2008, takes into account 76 indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedoms in ranking countries.
Authenticity of French Journalist with Chinese State-Owned Media Questioned
The authenticity of a so-called French journalist was called into question after someone published articles on Chinese state-run media promoting the CCP’s propaganda about Xinjiang; a French newspaper has said the lady does exist but might be someone who blindly promotes the regime.
French-language fact-checking website RTL announced on April 5 that “Laurène Beaumond does not exist, at least not under that name,” after investigating reports on two Chinese state-run media as well as reports from two French independent newspapers.
Real Person or Pseudonym?
Laurène Beaumond first appeared as a columnist on the Chinese state-run CGTN’s website on March 28, where she was described as an “independent journalist based in France, who has a double degree in history of art and archeology from the Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris-IV) and a Masters in journalism. … [She] has worked in var