This paper is interested to introduce an alternative free trade agreement framework to promote the fast economic growth and the reduction of poverty in developing countries (DC's). This new scheme of free trade agreement is called “The Micro-Free Trade Territory (MFTT)”. The main objective...

This study seeks to evaluate the terrorism and economic performance of the economy of India from the year 2004 to the year 2013. The analysis of the study is based on the model of Economics of Terrorism Monitoring Model (ETM-Model) introduced by Khan, Ruiz Estrada, and Yusof (2015). The main...

Crime is obviously a menace to economic growth and progress, but to acutely understand the enormity of its impact on economic performance for effective policy action, requires a credible means of measurement. Given the crime notoriety of the most of Central America and the struggling state of...

This research work examines the effects of terrorism on economic performance of the Islamic State in Iraq & Syria (ISIS) by using the application of Economics of Crime Monitoring Model (ECM-Model) of Ruiz Estrada & Ndoma (2014). The application of this model for ISIS has five phases (a) The...

The debate on the possible unification of South Korea and North Korea has often been assessed from the economic perspective, which is insufficient since unification entails not only the integration of two economies but political, social and technological integration of two territories. Using the...

This paper introduces an alternative index to measure the external sector from a different focus. The indicator, called the “external sector development index” (SXi), is a new analytical tool for studying the external sector behaviour of any country or region. The SXi has four objectives....

This paper shows how the inter-connections of the U.S. economy with five major economic regions in the world: Japan, China, ASEAN, Latin America, and the European Union can be captured through use of the inter-linkage coordinate space, and how such connections can be represented graphically with...

Climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of our paper is to set forth a model – the climate change vulnerability evaluation (CCVE) model – to evaluate the impact of...

This research paper proposes a group of new indicators in the analysis of pension programs performance. Section one presents a new model of analysis to evaluate the pension systems. This new model, “The Pensions Systems Performance Evaluation Model (PSPE-Model)” is intended to offer...

This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of ports in the generation of a rapid and sustainable economic growth in the case of developing and least developed countries. In addition, we are reviewing successful cases from different port cities such as Tokyo, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, and...