Economic evaluation of Bushehr Special Economic Zone

Subject Areas : Bi-quarterly Journal of development economics and planning

A. Monserf ¹ , A. Yahyaabadi ² , A. Samali ³

1 - Associatet Professor of Economics, Payamenour University, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professr, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr Branch (Isfahan)
3 - MA in Economics, Payam Noor University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2017-04-17 Accepted : 2017-04-17 Published : 2018-09-23

Keywords: investment, Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value, Profitability Index,

Abstract :

Special economic zones in different countries are absorbing external capitals, receiving and promoting technology, getting managerial knowledge, exporting and re-exporting for the host country. Building free and special zone is one of the ways of quick industrial development and expanding exports in Iran in development plans. Data in this research are studied annually and for a time period from 2006to 2025 and by COMFAR III and Excel software. The plan will be studied in three pessimistic, middle and optimistic scenarios which all analysis is on the basis of middle scenario. According to the final results of the plan, net present value of total capital in 21 percent discount rate equals to 2680619 million Rials, which with respect to the obtained net present values, the project is feasible economically. 

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