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2 minutos When Stephen Toope, the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, toured around the Jiangbei New Area in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, “great” was his most frequently used word. In September, Toope led his team to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cambridge University-Nanjing Center of Technology and Innovation in the new area, which belongs to the Nanjing section of the newly inaugurated Jiangsu pilot free trade zone (FTZ). He was among the first batch of foreign guests to the zone after Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto Global market has been moving towards a system which is more and more interconnected. Within this economic evolution, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are playing as cornerstones of this multi-country business controlling ownership regime.  And not by chance most of FDI investment projects are located in Free and Special Economic Zones because of their advanced technical and infrastructure environment as well as cost advantages and incentives.  So, those free zones, resulting from a long-lasting tradition, are living a new golden age in many geographical areas Continue lendo→

7 minutos Les premières zones économiques spéciales (ZES) et les zones franches ont été mises en place en Afrique, à partir des années 70, suite à leur succès dans nombreux pays asiatiques où elles avaient facilité l’industrialisation. Cette stratégie a connu un regain d’intérêt en Afrique, au cours des dernières années. D’après l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), on dénombrait en 1997, seulement 47 zones franches sur l’ensemble du continent africain. Aujourd’hui, on dénombre plus de 200 zones économiques spéciales et zones franches, à travers Continue lendo→

2 minutos A finales de los años 50, en Irlanda, surgieron las primeras Zonas Económicas Especiales (ZEE), concebidas como espacios geográficos delimitados y sujetos a exoneraciones aduaneras y tributarias con la finalidad de atraer inversiones y generar mano de obra calificada, empleos directos, así como fomentar el desarrollo de la economía Hoy, en el mundo, existen alrededor de 4.000 ZEE, de las cuales 400 están en América Latina. En Perú, se crearon siete zonas y cuatro de ellas se encuentran operativas: Tacna, Paita (Piura), Continue lendo→

1 minuto According to a ranking by fDi Magazine (part of the Financial Times group), the Katowice (southern Poland) and Lodz (central Poland) Special Economic Zones are among the world’s most attractive, placing second and eighth respectively in fDi’s ranking for 2019. Poland’s Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology described the result as “an especially big distinction” in the European context as Polish zones were the only ones in Europe to make the top ten. The Katowice Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) was rewarded in the Continue lendo→