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Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

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TIRANA, Feb. 15 – Albania lost six places to rank 65th among 180 world economies in the 2017 Index of Economic Freedom, maintaining its rating as a moderately free economy, but remaining among the best performing regional EU aspirants, according to a report published by Heritage Foundation, one of the top think tanks in the U.S. The report that evaluates countries in four broad policy areas that affect economic freedom shows Albania made steps backwards in the rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency and open market. Albania still outperformed most of its regional EU aspirant competitors, except for neighbouring…

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