This study aims to investigate the relationship between economic freedoms and tourism competitiveness with respect Latin American countries. Index of Economic Freedom published by Heritage Foundation was used as indicator freedoms. Travel Tourism Competitiveness World Forum utilized competitiveness. In addition government spending, which is a sub-index index freedom, Corruption Perception Index...

BACKGROUND Trade liberalization is promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) through a complex architecture of binding trade agreements. This type of trade, however, has the potential to modify the upstream and proximate determinants of tuberculosis (TB) infection. We aimed to analyse the association between trade liberalization and TB incidence in 22 high-burden TB countries between 1990 ...

In the debate on how we ought to define political freedom, some definitions are criticized for implying that no one can ever be free perform any action. this paper, I show possibility of freedom depends a definition finds an appropriate balance between absence interference and protection against interference. To assess different conceptions consider trade-offs they make these two dimensions. fi...

Scholars and policy makers believe that democracy will bring prosperity through integration into the global economy via increased international trade. This study tests two theories as to why democracies might trade more. First, political freedom may be correlated with economic freedom, thus prompting higher levels of economic activity, thereby driving states to trade more. Second, democracy imp...

Although antitrust courts sometimes stress the competitive process, they have not deeply explored what that process is. Inspired by the theory of the core, we explore the idea that the competitive process is the process of sellers and buyers forming improving coalitions. Much of antitrust can be seen as prohibiting firms’ attempts to restrain improving trade between their rivals and customers. ...

The banking sector is one of the important financial intermediaries in an economic system. Improvement in the banking sector can achieve optimal allocation of financial resources. The performance of banks and other financial service providers has direct effect on economic growth. One of the factors that can affect the banks operation is economic freedom. Economic freedom and freedom of private ...

At the core of republican thought, on Philip Pettit’s account, lies the conception of freedom as non-domination as opposed to freedom as non-interference in the liberal sense. I revisit the distinction between liberal and republican freedom and argue that republican freedom incorporates a particular rule-oflaw requirement, whereas liberal freedom does not. Liberals may also endorse such a requi...

Free trade increases overall world production of goods and services is a positive sum game in which all participating countries realize economic gains ,which suggested the theory comparative advantage. Vast literature also uses cross-country regressions to search for empirical linkages between income. However, research Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) context remains limited; this study an attemp...