Building a more open, competitive, and inclusive economic order by tackling the distortions and regulatory barriers that impede human commerce.
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Market Distortions Performance Index
A new framework for understanding how market distortions affect competition, growth, and prosperity.
Planned outputs include:
- An Annual Market Distortions Report
- Country rankings and scorecards
- A publicly available methodology report
- Country- and sector-specific deep dives
- Public-facing summaries paired with technical annexes
Our lens for economic properity
the three pillars
I
Open Trading System
Open trade represents the free flow of goods, services, and information across borders. Open trade can be facilitated by international, regional, multinational or bi-lateral trade agreements. The current global trading framework of the WTO and GATT have been generally successful in liberalising trade.
Trade favors all nations, not only those with an absolute advantage. However, nations that gain unfair advantage through the use of means such as subsidization, can distort international competition and open trade, thus making it more difficult to move from poverty to prosperity.
II
Competition
Open trade without competition inside the border has led to the enrichment of the gatekeepers of the economy, who control access to the market and pick winners and losers.
Competitive markets are those where competition on merit is the defining organising economic principle. For a market to be truly competitive, it must optimise consumer welfare in the economic sense of the term. The ordinary forces of supply and demand, conducted via voluntary exchange must be allowed to operate without distortion.
III
Property Rights protection
Property rights are the fundamental building block of wealth creation. Without property rights, competitive markets and open trade cannot be effectively accomplished. While competition is one of the most powerful forces that can create wealth, firms and individuals compete using property of every kind— intellectual, physical, spiritual—that they own. Property rights are the foundation upon which firms and individuals compete. Therefore, they are fundamental to a functioning economy because they lead to a higher level of consumer welfare and can help move people from poverty to prosperity.