junho2020 – ABRAZPE

Assessment of Industrial Cluster Policies in Viet Nam: The Role of Special Economic Zones in Attracting Foreign Direct Investment

menos de 1 minuto Special economic zones (SEZs) are considered as one of important regional industrial policies to attract foreign investment in developing countries such as Viet Nam. The review of SEZs development in Viet Nam including the comprehensive review of infrastructure and business environment in SEZs are presented in this paper for the first time. Moreover, the paper gives novel non-parametric evidence to indicate the positive causal linkage between the zoning policies and the attraction of foreign investment at district-level in the country Continue lendo→

Reforming African economies post pandemic

4 minutos When the tourism and hospitality industries reopen their doors, will tourists and holidaymaker flock in triple and quadruple their previous numbers and will they do so long enough for the industries to stabilize and resume growth? Will air travel shake off the blow it has taken, will it be willing to pocket less profit to attract business or will it hike prices to capitalize the anticipated initial high demand post the pandemic? How individual industries will raise from the ashes of the Continue lendo→

Kingdom hopes its SEZs will lure more US firms – Cambodia.

3 minutos Cambodia’s special economic zones (SEZs) are among several Asean peers that boast potential opportunities for US investors, seeking to diversify their supply chains, according to a recent report conducted by an international service firm. It said the bloc’s SEZs are playing an important role in facilitating greater trade between the region and the US through various fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, said Dezan Shira & Associates – a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm, providing legal, tax and operational advice to international corporate investors. Continue lendo→

China’s massive Hainan free-trade port plan raises questions over global trading rules compliance, experts say

1 minuto While the world is dotted with free-trade and special economic zones, few are on the scale of Hainan, China’s most populous island, covering an area only slightly smaller than Taiwan, and home to more than 9 million people. Beijing’s latest attempt to reinvent the sleepy tropical island as a massive free-trade port have drawn suggestions that it is trying to replace Hong Kong as the trading entrepôt for multinational companies trying to tap the mainland’s manufacturing base or consumer market. As a World Trade Continue lendo→

Special Economic Zones an engine to stimulate growth

2 minutos Covid-19 has become a pandemic that has reverberated across the globe. Its associated detrimental impact on economies has been felt far and wide, with serious disruptions in global value-chains and international trade being evidenced on a daily basis. In the South African context, Covid-19 is threatening to exacerbate the already entrenched socio-economic challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality that epitomised the country before the virus affected the world. The Covid-19 pandemic will adversely affect the manufacturing industry in South Africa. No one Continue lendo→

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