Foreign trade expansion plays an important role in economic growth and development. Since Iran’s single-product economy is facing tight sanctions, among trading partners, Turkey benefits from special place, and political independence in international relations because of its large population, rising per capita income, high economic growth rate, geographical and cultural proximity to Iran. Many ...

This paper seeks to explain the pattern of industrial investment in India under British rule. While the export oriented industries, such as tea and jute relied largely on British investment, the major import substituting activity, the cotton textile industry, was dominated by Indian owned firms. While the existing literature has explained the dominant role of British investment mainly using pol...

today export considered as important indicators in the global development companies and countries, and given the export orientation and competitive advantage is important to increase export performance. in the present paper, the aim of this study is considering the potential impact of market orientation and competitive advantage of exporters on export performance. population considered for this...

The adoption of and adherence to object-oriented design and programming principles have allowed the software industry to create applications of ever-increasing complexity. A concomitant need arises for strategies to identify, manage, and, wherever possible, reduce this software complexity. One such strategy is the systematic collection, interpretation, and analysis of software metrics, mappings...

 Growth in the productivity of staple nontradable food production is associated with consumption increases or poverty reduction across a number of settings, although the study of these relationships is complicated by the specific market dynamics that determine food prices. The relationship between productivity growth in tradable or export-oriented production and poverty alleviation is less cle...

This paper reviews evidence of the gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women’s access to employment, the long-term goal of transforming gender inequalities remains unmet and appears unattainable without state intervention in marke...

Contemporary evidence suggests that most field faults in software applications are found in a small percentage of the software’s components. This means that if these faulty software components can be detected early in the development project’s life cycle, mitigating actions can be taken, such as a redesign. For object-oriented applications, prediction models using design metrics can be used to ...

In this study, the situation of Iran, U.S and Turkey's Pistachio export is investigated. to this purpose, Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) Index is calculated based on Agricultural and total economy export, separately, then forecasted by using Auto- Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) approached, for 2008-2013. The results show that considering both commodity baskets, Turkey and Ir...

This paper analyzes the role of infrastructure availability in determining the attractiveness of countries for FDI inflows and for export-orientation of MNE production. We posit that investments by governments in providing efficient physical infrastructural facilities improve the investment climate for FDI. MNEs may be particularly sensitive to infrastructure availability for locating their inv...

This paper discusses the experience with opening up to the global economy of two small Central American countries, Honduras and Nicaragua. They have both strengthened democratic processes and reduced defence expenditure dramatically. Both have liberalized their trade régimes in the context of regional integration within Central America and have encouraged foreign direct investment and investmen...