Bahrain tops among GCC countries in human freedom
This was mentioned in the Human Freedom Index (HFI), which is co-published by the Fraser Institute, the Liberals Institute at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Cato Institute.
HFI presented a broad measure of human freedom around the world.
According to the report, Bahrain came in the third place among Arab countries, after Jordan and Lebanon.
The Arab countries that followed Bahrain were Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Morocco, Mauritania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Yemen, respectively.
The top 10 jurisdictions in order were Hong Kong, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Sweden. The bottom of the list included countries like Iran, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
The HFI is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created for a globally meaningful set of countries.
It covers 152 countries for 2012, the most recent year for which sufficient data is available. The index ranks countries beginning in 2008, the earliest year for which a robust enough index could be produced.
The findings in the report showed that freedom plays an important role in human well-being.
The findings in the study offer opportunities for further research into the complex ways in which freedom influences, and can be influenced by political regimes, economic development, and the whole range of indicators of human well-being.
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