This paper introduces an alternative indicator to evaluate the external sector behavior of a country or region. The objective of this indicator, titled “The External Sector Vulnerability Monitoring Index” (henceforth ESVM) (λ), is to offer policy-makers and researchers a new analytical tool...

This paper proposes an alternative trade analytical model to evaluate the trend and stages of trade liberalization of any country from a multidimensional perspective. The new trade analytical model is entitled “The Trade Liberalization Monitoring Model (TLM-Model)”

TLE-Methology is a new analytical tool to analyzed the level of liberalization liberalization that any country show in its process of open its economy. TLE-Methdology can show the expansion or contraction of trade liberalization from four production sectors are agriculture, heavy industry, light...

This short communication is interested to give more details about how the Openness Growth Monitoring Model (OGM-Model) works to the JPM readers. The main idea is to extend certain points from the original paper entitled ldquo;The Openness Growth Monitoring Modelrdquo; that was published in the...

would like to thank Dr. Philippe Lombaerde for his comments about my paper entitled quot;Trade Liberalization Evaluation (TLE) Methodologyquot; (Ruiz Estrada, 2004 M.A. Ruiz Estrada, The Trade liberalization evaluation (TLE) methodology, Journal of Policy Modeling 26 (2004) (8-9), pp. 1015-1029....

This research paper tries to evaluate a possible full free trade area agreement –FFTAA- between Mexico and Malaysia. We propose the uses of an alternative trade liberalization evaluation model to evaluate the trend and stages of a possible full trade area agreement between two countries, in...