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| ], as defined in ''Economic Freedom in the World'', and various other indicators. The red bars shows nations with less economic freedom, the green bars those with more. More economic freedom correlates very strongly with higher average ] per person, higher income of the poorest 10%, higher ], higher ], lower ], higher access to clean water sources, and less ].]] | |||
| ] scores nations on political freedom. | |||
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| {{legend|#FFC27B|Partly Free}} | |||
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| ]. Green nations rank higher, red nations lower. Each color represent one ] of the ranked nations.]] | |||
| ], which measures "the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians"]] | |||
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| ]. Each color represent one ] of the ranked nations. Green nations score higher, red nations lower. Grey nations are not ranked.]] | |||
| ::''Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'' | |||
| ::::::Sir Winston Churchill | |||
| ::''The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.'' | |||
| ::::::Robert Maynard Hutchins | |||
| ::''Information is the currency of democracy'' | |||
| ::::::Thomas Jefferson | |||
| My own POV is that ] and ] overall are beneficial. However, there are of course many opposing arguments and I have tried to include the views of both sides in order to achieve NPOV. I believe that the capitalist system must include policies redistributing ] from the most wealthy, since it is easier for the already wealthy to gradually accumulate more wealth than it is for the poor to gain any wealth. Therefore, relatively high ], ], and/or ]. | |||
| I strongly believe in the fundamental Misplaced Pages policies ], ], and ]. In particular, I like to read and support what I write with ] articles and ]. | |||
| == Political and economic freedom increases happiness == | |||
| === Democracy is good === | |||
| No wars and no conflicts causing any battle deaths between ].(See '']'' and ]) Little ], ], and few ]. No liberal democracy has had a large scale ]. More democratic nations have higher average self-reported ].(See ]) | |||
| === Capitalism is good === | |||
| The ] is way to measure the degree of capitalism in different nations. More capitalist nations have less poverty. Note that also nations with high ], like ], can be very capitalist. See also ] and ]. | |||
| === Globalization = the world is getting better === | |||
| * The percentage of people in developing countries living below US$1 (adjusted for inflation and purchasing power) per day has halved in only twenty years . | |||
| * ] has almost doubled in the developing world since ] and is starting to close the gap to the developed world where the improvement has been smaller. ] has decreased in every developing region of the world . ] for the world as a whole is diminishing . | |||
| * Democracy has increased dramatically from almost no nation with ] in ] to 62.5% of all nations in ] . | |||
| * The proportion of the world's population living in countries where per-capita food supplies are under 2,200 ]s (9,200 ]s) per day decreased from 56% in the mid-] to below 10% by the ]. | |||
| * Between ] and ], global literacy increased from 52% to 81% of the world. Women made up much of the gap: Female literacy as a percentage of male literacy has increased from 59% in ] to 80% in 2000. | |||
| * There are similar trends for electric power, cars, radios, and telephones per capita, as well as the proportion of the population with access to clean water . | |||
| == Hall of Fame Comments== | |||
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