Analysis of the Effects of Chabahar Free Industrial Trade Zone on the Economic and Physical Dimensions of Chabahar County

Nowadays, the free zones have been considered as a pervasive phenomenon and a tool for the realization of outward oriented development strategies with emphasis on export promotion policy. So that, most developing countries have attempted to build one or more free zones.
The goals of creating these areas are providing suitable conditions to increase production and export of industrial goods through foreign investment, creating jobs, earning foreign exchange, growth in economic welfare of areas and preserving national interests. This study aimed to analyze the effects of Chabaharfree industrial trade zone on the physical and economic development of Chabahar city.
The research method is descriptive-analytic. Data collection was carried out in documentary and field ways. The participants of the research are the citizens of Chabahar city and the sample size is 321 households reached through Cochrane method. The validity of the research (questionnaire) was confirmed by using the expert's point of view, and its reliability was confirmed through Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.97.
At the first step, questionnaire data analysis were conducted in SPSS software by using T test of two dependent samples and Friedman test. The results showed that Chabahar citizen's views on the Likert scale compared to the physical and economic of Chabahar city before and after creating Chabahar free industrial trade zone has improved with the average of 2.4 to 3.8 in physical expansion, from 2.04 to 3.01in urban services, from 1.9 to 3.2 in employment and income.