On the other hand, in order to know the level of economic freedom of each country, the annual study by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal, Index of Economic Freedom 2008, is used. In this edition the study continues implementing the changes of the previous edition, but also added some more information about the tax load for the people. Due to this change in the study, for its interanual comparison this report uses the updated data of 2007 with the information included in the 2008 index in order to avoid differences distorting the reality
