Henley & Partners: Asian Passports Reign Supreme As UK Slumps

This article from Spear’s magazine illustrates a crucial fact regarding visa-openness and development, namely, that they go-in-hand. It is no coincidence that those countries that score highest on the Henley Passport Index are also incredibly high-quality nations. As the authors Uğur Altundal and Ömer Zarpli observed in the Henley Passport Index and Global Mobility 2020: “Similar to trade freedom, countries that rank highly in investment freedom generally have stronger passports…European states such as Austria, Malta, and Switzerland clearly show that countries with a business-friendly environment tend to score highly when it comes to passport power.”