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

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?

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

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 

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

How Do Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters Drive China’s Rapid Development?

How Do Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters Drive China’s Rapid Development?

menos de 1 minuto In the past thirty years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth, an unprecedented development “miracle” in human history. How did China achieve this rapid growth? What have been its key drivers? And, most important, what can be learned from China’s success? Policy makers, business people, and scholars all over the world continue to debate these topics, but one thing is clear: the numerous special economic zones and industrial clusters that emerged after the country’s reforms are without doubt two important Continue lendo