Free zone

There are many factors affecting Foreign Direct Investment inflows into the countries. One of them is Special Economic Zones that encourage Foreign Direct Investment inflows and achieve remarkable results in the world. Special Economic Zones are defined in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as the regions where production, trade and storage are not limited to time and are exempt from customs and taxes. This study analyzed the relationship between the Foreign Direct Investment inflows of Turkey, the Foreign Direct Investment inflows of the World and the number of the Special Economic Zone types analyzed using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Method from 1980 to 2019. The results show that Foreign Direct Investment inflows of the World have a positive and significant effect on Foreign Direct Investment inflows Turkey in the long term and the short term. Also, the number of total Special Economic Zone has a positive and significant on the Foreign Direct Investment inflows of Turkey. Foreign Direct Investment inflows of Turkey increase 1.01% and 2.58% in long term and short term, respectively when the increase is 1% in the number of total Special Economic Zone. Moreover in this study, a number of the Special Economic Zone types such as OIZ, TDZ, FZ have been analyzed .

The globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. However, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. The international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. The present study as a descriptive-analytical study aimed at investigating the regional-urban development indexes of Chabahar Port as well as analyzing the improvement conditions of commercial activities resulting from globalization process. To collect the data required in the study, precise library and field studies were done. The population of the study includes the inhabitants of Chabahar, 85633 people according to nation-wide census of 1390. By applying the Cochran sampling method, 380 persons were selected as participants to fill the questionnaires. In order to analyze the data, the one-sample T test and SPSS software were used. Based on the findings of the study, the mean of regional-urban development indexes of Chabahar Port is 3.17 and the T statistic is 4.955. Hence, the influence of globalization process on the regional-urban development process is nearly average, as a result the regional-urban development indexes of Chabahar Port are in a good condition. Among the regional-urban development indexes, the &ldquocommunication&rdquo index statistic with 10.818 and the &ldquoHousing&rdquo index statistic with 5.538 more than other indexes affected by the globalization process and trade development.