World Think Tanks Rankings: IMANI Ghana Scores High And Among The Best

In 1985 I joined a foundation devoted to help start and support market-oriented think tanks.

Since then I have been tracking and trying to evaluate market-oriented think tanks.A “market-oriented” think tank is grounded on the reality that respect for private property within a context of rule of law with limited government has been the path for  the wealth of nations.

Think tanks that are not market-oriented study how to redistribute wealth, how to increase taxation, or  the optimum rate of monetary debasement.

Governments have typically relied on their own internal think tanks for that research, and complemented it by research from state-subsidized universities.

Market-oriented think tanks focus on finding private solutions to public problems.After a long career helping support and giving advice to think tanks around the world, Dr.

The top of the rankings include 90 market-oriented, non-profit think tanks.

One of the challenges mentioned is that “governments are creating think tanks that are designed to appear to be non-governmental organizations but are in fact arms of the government.