TRADE AND INVESTMENT FREEDOM ARE CRUCIAL FOR DEVELOPING ECONOMIES - At the World Economic Forum in Davos from January 19-23, one of the core topics of discussion was how to create economic opportunity for the nearly 800 million young people due to become working age in the next decade. With many of these young people living in developing countries, Nina Dannaoui-Johnson uses the Freedom and Prosperity Indexes to examine trends in economic freedom in developing economies.