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...

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 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...

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...

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 research will present a new methodology on the study of openness or trade liberalization. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part reviews the literature on analytical methods evaluating Openness based on three different approaches focusing on political economy, economic...