The Heritage Foundation, an American right-wing think-tank, and the Wall Street Journal have given Saudi Arabia the seventh ranking as the "most free" economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The annual "global economic freedom" rating names Bahrain as the first and the UAE and Kuwait the third and fourth-ranks in the listing. The countries in the MENA region were ranked in the following order: Bahrain, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, Iran and Libya.