IN WORLD RATING OF ECONOMIC FREEDOMS ARMENIA OCCUPIED 32ND PLACE

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.01.2007 14:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In traditional rating of economic freedoms, which is
being worked out by Heritage Foundation, Armenia occupied 32nd place of
161. The leader of world rating became Hong Kong with 89.3 points. The
second place occupies Singapore (85.7) and the 3rd – Australia
(82.7). In this rating Russia occurred in 120th place. Armenia and
some other post-soviet countries have outstripped Russia.

Particularly, Estonia occupied 12th, Lithuania – 22nd places. Georgia
is in 35th, Kirgizia – 79th and Moldova – 81st place. The economic
freedoms in Ukraine are worse than in Russia. It occupied 125th place.

Cuba and North Korea occurred in the last positions.

The rating is build on 10 categories, which concern economic, trade
and fiscal freedoms, as well as the level of government interference
in the economy, Lenta.ru reports.