Evaluating and prioritizing the free zones of the country and its impact on economic development in these areas

Considering the position and value of free trade areas in the economy of the community, these areas are necessary. And prioritizing these areas is very important in terms of economic indicators. Therefore, in this paper, in order to optimize the allocation of the country's economic resources and the impact of economic indicators, the priority of seven free trade zones is estimated using the Topsis decision-making method for the years 1385-1394, and ranked The final round of free trade zones has taken place. The results of the mentioned method indicate that according to the indicators of export, import, domestic and foreign investment, transit, companies and institutions, the Maku Free Zone with the similarity index of 919.0 has the highest rank and then From these areas are Arvand, Kish, Anzali, Aras, Qeshm and Chabahar. Hence, by strengthening the indicators such as increasing foreign and domestic investment, exports and access to the global and regional markets could help to develop these economies.