Relatórios – ABRAZPE

From Fields to Factories:Special Economic Zones, Foreign Direct Investment,and Labour Markets in Vietnam

1 minuto Tevin Tafese, Jann Lay, Van Tran IntroductionEconomic integration into the global economy through trade, foreign investment, and the participation in global value chains (GVCs) is a potentially important driver of economic development and improved labour-market outcomes (World Bank, 2019). Vietnam, which has experienced a deep integration into GVCs over the past 20 years, is a case in point. Its integration into the global economy has been driven by opening up to trade and investment by multinational firms in all major sectors of Continue lendo→

Promoting Productive Transformation through Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Sierra Leone 2023

2 minutos Foreword At a time when Sierra Leone is recovering from the impact of COVID-19 amidst the Ukraine-Russia war-induced food and energy crisis, special economic zones (SEZs) present a unique opportunity for in- vestment in order to foster inclusive and sustainable growth and development. Sierra Leone faces many constraints to economic development but the country as a whole and some localities in particular, offer huge potential and many comparative advantages that can be leveraged to increase competitiveness, achieve productive transformation, and promote a Continue lendo→

Who Built the Zones?

2 minutos Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments. Angus Burgin Fall 2023 Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracyby Quinn SlobodianMetropolitan Books, 2023, 352 pp. Just three years after his famous declaration that history had come to an end, Francis Fukuyama published a little-noticed piece, in the now-defunct journal New Perspectives Quarterly, Continue lendo→

Harnessing the potential of special economic zones for private sector development and inclusive industrialization in Southern Africa

menos de 1 minuto The present report was produced in the context of the United Nations Development Account twelfth tranche project, titled “Promotion and Implementation of Regional and National Industrialization Policies for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa”, which is being led by the Sub regional Office for Southern Africa of the Economic Commission for Africa. The primary objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of member States in the sub region to develop and implement industrialization policies and strategies that Continue lendo→

Harnessing the Potential of Special Economic Zones for Private Sector Development and Inclusive Industrialization in Southern Africa

4 minutos The term “special economic zones” (SEZs) is a generic term encompassing various forms of specially designated clusters of industrial and high-value-added activities whose operators receive incentives not received by other economic operators. SEZs can also be defined as geographically demarcated areas where economic laws are more liberal than in the rest of the country. As a result, they include a variety of forms and types. The key message of the present study for the Southern African subregion is that countries around the Continue lendo→