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LEAD Action News vol 11 Number 4, June 2011, ISSN 1324-6011
Incorporating Lead Aware Times (ISSN 1440-4966) & Lead Advisory Service News (ISSN 1440-0561)
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Economic Freedom and the Elimination of Leaded Petrol in 2006

Cooper:

‘In 2006, economic freedom data was available for the following countries which continued to use lead additives in their vehicular fuels: Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Macedonia, Morocco, Myanmar, Serbia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Data was not available for Afghanistan, Iraq, [Ed’s bolding] Palestine or Western Sahara. The Economic Freedom Index for 2006 assessed the economic freedom levels of 157 countries throughout the world (The Heritage Foundation 2006).

‘…more countries which had eliminated lead from their vehicular fuels displayed higher economic freedom values than countries which had not eliminated lead from their vehicular fuels…The outlying leaded country returning an economic freedom value of 4.0 was North Korea.

‘…it was possible to conclude with confidence that a relationship existed between economic freedom values and the elimination or non-elimination of leaded additives from vehicular fuels. .. the relationship between lower economic freedom values and a failure to eliminate lead from vehicular fuels (evident in the frequency histogram of the two datasets) did not emerge by chance.’

Economic Freedom and the Elimination of Leaded Petrol in 2010

The ranking, out of 179 countries was as follows: Yemen, least worst of the leaded group (127), Algeria (132) Burma 174 and North Korea last at 179. Data for Afghanistan and Iraq was not available. Please note that these numbers do not represent the ‘score’ given by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, but how the countries rate in relation to each other.

Yemen

Yemen – highest ranked for economic freedom of the 4 out of 6 leaded petrol countries for which data was available in 2010

‘In 2010, economic freedom data was available for the following countries which continued to use lead additives in their vehicular fuels: Algeria, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea and Yemen. Data was not available for Afghanistan or Iraq. [Ed’s bolding] The extremely small sample size associated with the leaded dataset limits the reliability of any analysis that can be conducted in relation to economic freedom data in 2010

‘…it was possible to conclude with confidence that, as in 2006, a relationship existed between economic freedom values and the elimination or non-elimination of leaded additives from vehicular fuels in 2010. The… relationship between lower levels of economic freedom and a failure to eliminate lead from vehicular fuels… did not emerge by chance.

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