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 and why the Lithuanian Free Market Institute is so ardently defending this legal gateway out of the shadow economy in Lithuania.

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, has been incorporated into the curricula of 15 Ukrainian schools across 9 different regions and has reached more than 500 middle schoolers.

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. 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.

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, 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.

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 is welcome progress for advocates of free markets, and Centro de Divulgacion del Conocimiento Economico para la Libertad (CEDICE) is monitoring the situation closely.