menos de 1 minuto South Africa’s special economic zones programme has reached its full implementation stage, with 115 operational investors ploughing in over R16.8 billion, said Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. While at the first national special economic zones investment conference hosted by his department in partnership with the KwaZulu-Natal department of economic development, tourism, and environmental affairs, Davies said these companies had created 15,716 direct jobs. “Since the introduction of the new SEZ legislation in 2014, the number of designated zones has increased, Continue lendo→

3 minutos When the island of Hainan was designated as China’s 12th free-trade zone by President Xi Jinping in April last year, it came with an ambition to make the area operational by 2020, and reach a “mature” development stage in 2035. But one year on, how far has China’s southernmost province lived up to expectations? From November to March, the Hainan free-trade zone attracted 185.7 billion yuan (US$27.6 billion) of investment in three batches, allocated to 378 construction projects, including infrastructure, a tax-free Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto “Economic Zones” are the vanguard to opening a country’s economic supply chain to the outside world. They provide an environment laced with a liberalised regulatory regime and financial incentives, which help to attract investment, kick-start production, generate quality employment, and give a thrust to trade. Most emerging economies are moving towards adopting this framework and creating ‘specialised’ economic and export hubs that would give them better access to foreign funding and an inexhaustible overseas consumer base. Presently, ‘Special Economic Zones’ Continue lendo→

1 minuto A pesquisa ECSA Conteiner Terminal Report 2019 da Datamar aponta que o potencial de crescimento do Nordeste do Brasil, liderado pelos portos do Pecém (CE) e de Suape (PE), é o maior entre todas as regiões, segundo operadores de terminais portuários. Foram consultados diretores e autoridades de 22 portos brasileiros, seis na Argentina e dois no Uruguai. Entre os entrevistados, o índice de confiança no desenvolvimento da Região é alto. Para eles, a movimentação de contêineres pode crescer em 25% em “curto Continue lendo→

2 minutos Assim como ocorreu com a Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP), outros investimentos que chegam ao Ceará trazem consigo a expectativa de mais negócios em cadeia capazes de impulsionar a economia cearense. Ao contrário dos restaurantes e outros pequenos comércios, como ocorreu em Cumbuco, parcerias como a da alemã Fraport AG e da holandesa Porto de Roterdã alimentam a esperança de mais crescimento para o Estado. Segundo Rômulo Alexandre Soares, presidente do Conselho de Relações Internacionais da Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Continue lendo→

1 minuto Ces espaces économiques à régime spécial ont été mis en place dans les années 80-90 pour attirer des investissements, créer des emplois et développer les exportations sur le continent. Aujourd’hui, ils font toujours recette. Du 20 au 22 septembre 2018 s’est tenue à Abidjan, capitale économique de la Côte d’Ivoire, la troisième rencontre annuelle de l’AFZO (Organisation africaine des zones franches). Le thème central était: «Contribution des zones économiques et zones franches dans le développement économique durable en Afrique».  Une trentaine de Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto China’s economic development zones (EDZs) are areas with preferential business policies that differ from those governing the country as a whole. First experimented with in the 1970s, Chinahas created a range of EDZs to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and boost domestic growth. EDZs provide a broad range of FDI incentives, which vary depending on the specific EDZ. Businesses operating in EDZs can expect, among other incentives, a higher level of autonomy over their operations, a variety of tax exemptions, land and building Continue lendo→