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Định nghĩa chỉ số tự do kinh tế năm 2008 là "quyền tự do kinh tế cao nhất mang lại quyền sở hữu tuyệt đối về quyền sở hữu tài sản, quyền tự do được thực hiện đầy đủ cho lao động, vốn và hàng hóa, và sự vắng mặt tuyệt đối của sự cưỡng chế hoặc ràng buộc của tự do kinh tế vượt quá mức độ cần thiết cho công dân để bảo vệ và duy trì quyền tự do. "
The index scores nations on ten factors of economic freedom, separated into four categories, using statistics from organizations like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Economist Intelligence Unit và Transparency International. In each factor, countries are scored 0 to 100, with 0 being the least free and 100 the most free. A score of 100 signifies an economic environment or set of policies that is most conducive to economic freedom. The methodology has shifted and changed as new data and measurements have become available, especially in the area of Labor Freedom, which was given its own indicator spot in 2007.
The following list explains what each factor currently assesses and groups them according to their respective category:
Property Rights Lưu trữ 2020-12-09 tại Wayback Machine: Degree of a country's legal protection of private property rights, degree of enforcement of those laws, independence of and corruption within the judiciary, and likelihood of expropriation.
Freedom from Corruption[liên kết hỏng]: The non-prevalence of political corruption within a country, according to the Corruption Perceptions Index.
Fiscal Freedom[liên kết hỏng]: How free is a country from tax burden. It comprises three quantitative measures: top marginal tax rate of both individual (1) and corporate (2) income, and total tax burden as a percentage of GDP (3).
Government Size/Spending[liên kết hỏng]: Governments' expenditures as a percentage of GDP, including consumption and transfers. The higher the percentual spending, the lower the score.
Business Freedom[liên kết hỏng]: A country's freedom from the burden of regulations on starting, operating, and closing business, given factors such as time, cost and number of procedures, as well as the efficiency of government in the regulatory process.
Labor Freedom Lưu trữ 2018-07-22 tại Wayback Machine: How free is a country from legal regulation on the labor market, including those relating to minimum wages, hiring and firing, hours of work and severance requirements.
Monetary Freedom[liên kết hỏng]: How free from microeconomic intervention and price instability is a country, basing on an equation considering the weighted average inflation rate in the last three years and price controls.
Trade Freedom[liên kết hỏng]: Freedom from sizeable numbers and burdens of tariffs and non-tariff barriers to imports and exports of a country.
Investment Freedom[liên kết hỏng]: Freedom from restrictions on the movement and use of investment capital, regardless of activity, within and across the country's borders.
Financial Freedom[liên kết hỏng]:  A country's independence from government control and interference in the financial sector, including banks. It considers government ownership of financial firms, extent of financial and capital market development, government influence on the allocation of credit and openness to foreign competition.