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Hong Kong still the freest economy

SURVEY A lack of trade barriers, low taxes and strong property rights has kept the former British territory on top of the ranking for nine years, but dark clouds loom

AP , HONG KONG

But 85 of the countries rated remained "mostly unfree" or "repressed," with North Korea ranked the most economically repressed country in the world.

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