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Top 10 Stories Featuring Atlas Network’s Investments in Freedom
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1. A taste of tradition in Lithuania ([link removed])

More than 100,000 Lithuanians currently benefit from simple business licenses that make starting a small business easier. Ona Raudeliūnienė adds to her wages as a librarian by baking traditional cakes that are enjoyed on special occasions—but the simple license she uses is under threat. Certain occupations, including childcare and auto repair, have already been eliminated from license eligibility. Read Ona’s success story ([link removed]) and why the Lithuanian Free Market Institute is so ardently defending this legal gateway out of the shadow economy in Lithuania.
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Based on our current understanding of the situation, both Europe Liberty Forum and Latin America Liberty Forum, as well as all other Atlas Network training programs planned in 2020, will proceed as scheduled ([link removed]) . Asia Liberty Forum, which was slated for March 12-13 in Manila, Philippines with our co-hosts at Foundation for Economic Freedom, is now scheduled for January 2021 in Manila. We will share final details with you as soon as they are available.

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2. Eliminating bureaucratic barriers in Peru ([link removed])
Entrepreneurs and small business owners in Peru now have an easier time overcoming obstacles to success as a result of a new monitoring system that tracks bureaucratic barriers. ([link removed]) Asociación de Contribuyentes del Perú’s Bureaucratic Barriers Observatory provides a database to Peruvians of official limitations that impede market processes. The database has already led to the removal of additional restrictions on the free movement of goods and services.
3. Bringing “Economics in 31 Hours” to Ukrainian schools ([link removed])

Nataliya Melnyk of the Bendukidze Free Market Center won last year’s Europe Think Tank Shark Tank competition to create a middle school economics curriculum built around a translation of Lithuanian Free Market Institute’s wildly popular Economics in 31 Hours textbook. The new book, called Economics ([link removed]) , has been incorporated into the curricula of 15 Ukrainian schools across 9 different regions and has reached more than 500 middle schoolers.
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4. The Freedom Movement: Its Past, Present, and Future ([link removed])

Whether you are new to the freedom movement or a long-time fellow traveler, you’ll find insights in this monograph on Atlas Network’s worldwide project to protect and enhance the freedom of others. ([link removed]) From his perspective of twenty years with Atlas Network—which serves as a hub for more than 500 organizations in the U.S. and nearly 100 other countries—Brad Lips provides analysis of the freedom movement’s past, shares statistics about its present, and asks questions that will determine its future.

5. Fundación Ecuador Libre lays the groundwork for tax reform ([link removed])

Over the last year, Fundación Ecuador Libre conducted an Economic Freedom Audit in conjunction with Fraser Institute and with support from Atlas Network, analyzing the country’s policies and institutions in order to diagnose the root causes that limit economic freedom. A new tax law ([link removed]) , la Ley de Simplicidad y Progresividad Tributaria, is a direct result of the audit’s initial recommendations, and Ecuador Libre plans to propose additional bills to reform the country’s central bank as well as labor regulations, judicial efficiency, and trade agreements.
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6. How to leverage resources within the liberty movement | Matt Warner on The Bob Zadek Show ([link removed])
“While the ‘problem’ of development has stymied well-funded academics and supranational government bodies, Atlas Network has used the same ‘engage and exchange’ formula time and time again to spur growth and entrepreneurship without accepting a penny from any government or quasi-government institutions,” says popular podcaster Bob Zadek on his eponymous weekly show, which recently featured Matt Warner in an hour-long interview examining development economics. ([link removed])
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7. A first step toward liberalization in Venezuela? ([link removed])

In the wake of a devastating economic collapse, is Venezuela moving towards a free and open economy? Facing few other options, Nicolás Maduro has presented a plan to begin the privatization of the state-owned oil industry by giving up majority control to several international corporations. This astonishing development ([link removed]) is welcome progress for advocates of free markets, and Centro de Divulgacion del Conocimiento Economico para la Libertad (CEDICE) is monitoring the situation closely.
8. Think Tank Essentials across the pond ([link removed])
Defining challenges, targeting audiences, and crafting workable solutions for success were important takeaways from Atlas Network’s 2020 European Think Tank Essentials ([link removed]) training, held in London in February. Twenty-two participants from 20 partner organizations learned how to strengthen the impact of free-market ideas and gained new insights into the best ways to hone their mission statements, market their ideas, and create strategic plans to achieve their project goals.
9. Young Africans for Opportunities builds a culture of entrepreneurship in West Africa ([link removed])
Students from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana are better prepared to join the workforce thanks to the efforts of Young Africans for Opportunities, an Atlas Network grantee that is working to advance the principles of a free society in order to enable the creation of opportunities for all in Western Africa. Nearly 300 students attended YAFO’s “Young and Employable” workshop, ([link removed]) which focused on entrepreneurship, networking, and professional development, giving participants the unique opportunity to expand their education beyond the limits of the classroom.
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10. Association Multi stops minimum wage increase in Bosnia and Herzegovina ([link removed])
The unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage were at the center of a successful campaign to educate people in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the problems of market intervention. Association Multi, an Atlas Network partner based in Tuzla, successfully pushed back ([link removed]) against a dangerous populist proposal to raise the minimum wage by 150 percent.

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