This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the economic convergence that operate between five selected Asian countries (namely Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia). In particular, it seeks investigate how increased integration has impacted inter-country income levels among founding members ASEAN. Design/methodology/approach A new Machine Learning (ML) approach...

this paper consists of two parts. the first section describes the index and process of globalization and presents kof and a.t. kearney models and index. it also shows the situation of iran in the process of globalization. the results of this section indicate that based on the above mentioned index, iran does not have a good situation in the globalization process (iran’s position is the lowest a...

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 ...

Since the 1980s, world has been increasingly connected and integrated. The concept of distance revived by efficiency communication transportation, transforming into a global community. Globalization's footprints are becoming visible with passage time. Aside from other aspects, ever-increasing globalization is altering women's life. Involvement in work force considered as an important indicator ...

This study analyzes Sub-Saharan Africa through the framework of globalization. The study‘s objective is to determine whether globalization is a significant factor when associated with economic growth in the region. Using panel data from 1995-2005 for 41 countries and the KOF globalization index, an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model was employed to examine the relationship between globalization...