II. The Benefits of Trade Liberalization Policies that make an economy open to trade and investment with the rest of the world are needed for sustained economic growth. The evidence on this is clear.

These trends are especially apparent in the more than one dozen open coastal areas where foreign investors enjoy tax advantages. In addition, economic liberalization has boosted exports--which rose 19 ...

History has shown that prosperity is built through economic freedom and self-reliance—not through perpetual financial ...

Economic reforms of 1977 The reforms of 1977 were a sharp break from past economic regimes. They included the liberalization of trade and exchange controls and the introduction of an economic strategy ...

The global trade landscape is shifting, and not in the way free traders had hoped. For decades, the belief that economic ...

In fulfillment of his mandate to promote regional trade integration, the Chairman of the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme ...

With a score of 60.3 points, Morocco ranks first in North Africa in the 2025 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the ...

South Korea’s rise from post-war devastation to one of the world’s most advanced economies is often called an economic miracle. With global giants like Samsung and Hyundai leading its industrial ...

The term "shock therapy" refers to a set of radical economic reforms aimed at rapid economic stabilization, liberalization, privatization and the opening of the economy to international trade.

In modern history, the most indiscriminate use of import taxes was America’s Smoot-Hawley Tariffs of 1930. In addition to ...