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Special economic zones : progress, emerging challenges, and future directions / edited by Thomas Farole, Gokhan Akinci.

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Special economic zones : progress, emerging challenges, and future directions / edited by Thomas Farole, Gokhan Akinci.
Publication
Washington, DC : World Bank, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Akinci, Gokhan.
  • Farole, Thomas.
  • World Bank
Description
xxii, 319 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Developing countries > Economic policy
  • Economic zoning > Developing countries
  • Enterprise zones > Developing countries
  • Export processing zones > Developing countries
  • Foreign trade promotion > Developing countries
  • Free ports and zones > Developing countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Thomas Farole and Gokhan Akinci -- The thin end of the wedge : unlocking comparative advantage through EPZs in Bangladesh / Mustafizul Hye Shakir and Thomas Farole -- Success and statis in Honduras' free zones / Michael Engman -- China's investment in special economic zones in Africa / Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang -- Partnership agreements in the China-Singapore (Suzhou) industrial park : lessons for joint economic zone development / Min Zhao and Thomas Farole -- SEZs in the context of regional integration : creating synergies for trade and investment / Naoko Koyama -- When trade preferences and tax breaks are no longer enough : the challenge of adjustment in the Dominican Republic's free zones / Jean-Marie Burgaud and Thomas Farole -- Fostering innovation in developing economies through SEZs / Justine White -- Early reform zones : catalysts for dynamic market economies in Africa / Richard Auty -- Planned obsolescence? : export processing zones and structural reform in Mauritius / Claude Baissac -- The gender dimensions of special economic zones / Sheba Tejani -- Low-carbon, green special economic zones / Han-Koo Yeo and Gokhan Akinci.
ISBN
  • 9780821387634 (pbk.)
  • 0821387634 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2011284555
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library