Theories of regional integration typically analyze the regional integration process from the perspective of a single discipline, usually economics. However, such one-dimensional analytical frameworks cannot fully capture the richness and complexity of the inherently multi-dimensional regional...

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...

In the past two decades different authors from different fields of research (economic, political and social view points) have explained the evolution and effects of globalization and regionalism on the world economy. Different theories and analytical tools have been developed and applied in...

This paper is interested to show an alternative methodological approach to evaluate regional trade agreements under the application of the National Production Function (NP-Function). The main idea is to find each national production function for each country member interested to join into a...

This study proposes to apply the trade liberalization evaluation methodology (TLE-Methodology) by Ruiz Estrada (2004) to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) twelve members. The TLE-Methodology offer new indexes. There are four basic phases in the implementation of TLE-Methodology. The first...

This paper is interested to introduce an alternative free trade agreement framework to promote the fast economic growth and the reduction of poverty in low income ASEAN members. This new scheme of free trade agreement is called “The Nano-Free Trade Territory (NFTT)”. The main objective of...

The research in this thesis is carried out based on two general observations: First, the lack of alternative regional integration (RI) and trade liberalization (TL) monitoring models. Second is a new regional integration scheme theoretical framework proposal to integrate middle and low income...