A recent annual study of prosperity and well-being finds that, while many countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe have -- by and large -- good health care and education programs, they suffer from ...

Sponsored insight: The Great Recession of 2008 left economies in tatters around the world. The recovery has been slow and some nations have fared better than others. But the Legatum Institute's ...

Economists and social scientists have discussed freedom and prosperity issues for centuries. Quantitative measurements of freedom, however, are less than half a century old. Freedom House started ...

Morocco is still struggling to turn economic growth into better living conditions, according to the Global Prosperity Index ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONDON — The Legatum Institute has just launched the 2013 Prosperity Index, a broad measurement of national success that looks beyond GDP. Norway tops the ...

What's your idea of the best place in which to live? Many people would probably answer that palm trees and a gleaming beach would be a good start to their idea of earthly paradise. But in real life, ...

In an unprecedented fall, the U.S. dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in the 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index that was published today. The index benchmarks countries in eight categories: ...

Are you better off than you were five years ago? Is the world? The Legatum Institute seeks answers with its 2013 Prosperity Index. Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, ...

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Every year, the Legatum Institute, a London based think-tank releases its annual global Prosperity Index, a huge survey that ranks what it calls the most prosperous countries in the world. The amount ...