The index of economic freedom has been released, and Hong Kong is at the top.
The rankings employed criteria such as business freedom, tax rates, inflation, property rights and freedom from corruption.
The United States comes in fourth, after Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. Looking at the economic freedom map it seems that El Salvador is economically freer than the rest of Central America, including Costa Rica - not that surprising, considering that Costa Rica is seriously lagging in the deregulation process, and they apparently wipe the floor with us in the “Banking and Financial” area.
Via Technocrat. Very interesting note from a Hong Kong resident on the thread.