Chapter 1 — Special Economic Zones: The Global Frontlines of Neoliberalism’s Value Regime
2 minutos The continued rise in the number of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is one of the defining characteristics of the world economy after the global financial crash of 2007/8. In 2006, one year before the crisis began, researchers from the International Labor Organization (ILO) counted more than 3,500 zones in more than 130 nations, with around 66 million workers employed in zone factories (Boyenge 2007). Thirteen years later, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report (WIR), a lead Continue lendo→
