entrepreneurship is one of the key requirements for economic development. so determinants of the development of entrepreneurial activities has always been of interest to researchers. economic freedom and reducing the size of government is to foster entrepreneurship as substrates. the main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic freedom on the development of entrepreneurial ...

The service trade develops quickly in China and the scale of which is increased. The main body of China’s service trade is transportation and travel. Meanwhile, the deficit in China's balance of service trade is widened and China’ service trade lags behind the China’s goods trade and the service trade in some country. It’s important to assess the dynamic change of the comparative advantage of C...

The variety and diversity of currencies forms a significant aspect the international political economy especially global economic relations among countries. It can be said that “language” countries’ activities is variation displayed by their currencies. A plethora papers has indicated relationship between exchange rates many facets relations, with negative, positive, or even neutral link. Excha...

Empiricists have used various editions of an economic freedom index (EFI) initially developed by Gwartney et al. (1996) [Gwartney, J., Lawson, R., Block, W., 1996. Economic Freedom of the World: 1975–1995. Fraser Institute, Vancouver.] to examine the relationship between economic freedom and other socio-economic variables, such as growth or investment. The EFI quantifies the level of particular...

Current study aims to investigate the impact of institutional governance (GOV), trade openness (TOPEN), real output (RGDP), economic freedom (EFR), inflation rate (INFR) and growth on financial sector development (FSD) selected Asian economies. A consolidated index, representing banking stock market is generated using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The conducted data analysis by applying p...

In this paper the trade restrictiveness of agricultural policies in Iran was measured by the TRIindex for the nine major agricultural products including wheat, rice, barely, maize, soybean,meat (beef meat), soybean oil, sugar and banana over the period 1981 to 2007. The main resultsindicate that there is no trend in above index and high volatility especially in 2006 and 2007years due to conside...

the millennium development goals (mdgs) are eight international development goals and 21 targets that all countries have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. central asian countries have shown uneven progress in achieving these goals. this paper conducts a comparative study of the impact of economic integration of the regional countries into the world economy on uneven progress of central asian ...

Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does not reflect the complex economic environment and a highly aggregated index makes it difficult to draw policy conclusions. In this paper we investigate what specific types of economic freedom measures tha...