Yet the past two decades have seen economic freedom advance further than political freedom.
For those who insist that political freedom is a fundamental precondition, the historical evidence is disappointing.
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The role of political freedom as a source of technological creativity is tenuous at best.
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The prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, has indicated that students may be given more political freedom.
Less moved by political freedom, he worried that mass suffrage would lead to instability.
Despite these points of similarity, Ms Wang has used her political freedom to explore more serious historical questions.
Though he touched on many issues of reform, Bush spent extra time discussing women's rights and political freedom.
Voters who want more political freedom may also have to accept that Mr Museveni can keep on running.
No more sheltering behind the economic bounty and political freedom the U.S. has guaranteed while offering nothing in return.
Measurements of political freedom and the rule of law are only loosely correlated.
They have brushed off or suppressed domestic dissent, and claimed popular support for putting greater prosperity before political freedom.
They constitute the use of governmental power to intrude on the privacy and shackle the political freedom of American citizens.
If there ever were a worthy public discourse, this is it: Is the American Dream about self-determination and political freedom?
Although they chafe against the limits imposed on intellectual and political freedom, surveys suggest that many value stability above all.
The plan, which is both imaginative and realistic, relies on mobilising ordinary Angolans to come out for peace and political freedom.
Political freedom tends to go hand in hand with economic freedom, which in turn tends to bring international trade and prosperity.
And proponents of political freedom are better able to share information and organize support to break down the walls of tyranny.
And let's face it, strong-arm regimes are threatened by popular outcries for political freedom that are empowered by unfettered Internet connectivity.
But not many can have been put off by his readiness to allow political freedom to members of the armed forces.
Political freedom, however patchy, is commoner than it was a generation ago.
And that has tremendous impact on the Chinese mainland, when they are also struggling to have more economic freedom and possibly political freedom.
Grassroots nationalist organisations emerged in all three Baltic states during 1988 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in greater economic and political freedom.
Few things would worry the Kremlin more than proof that political freedom, the rule of law and sensible foreign policy work well in nearby countries.
Bo, who suffered prison time for his convictions, was both a scold and a bridge in the tussles that brought political freedom to the island.
Without the nation-state there can be no real national political freedom.
The Center believes that the United States must express solidarity with the oppressed people of the Soviet Union and others being denied political freedom and economic opportunity.
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The U.S. President was touting political freedom, and an unmistakable context of his remarks was the miserable lack of same in much of the Islamic Middle East.
The report describes how Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, repression of women and isolation from the world of ideas that stifles creativity.
In Russia's case it's based on hundred dollar-a-barrel, or hundred thirty dollar-a-barrel oil, which has produced enormous growth in Russia but not a corresponding growth in political freedom.
Mr. BEUTTLER: Not so much religious freedom, but political freedom.
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