{"id":3675,"date":"2020-05-26T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2020-05-26T22:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:25:24","slug":"value-creation-free-zones-building-stakeholders-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/value-creation-free-zones-building-stakeholders-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Value creation in free zones, building stakeholders resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"estimated-read-time\">Tempo de leitura:<small> 3 minutos<\/small><\/p> \n<p>Free&nbsp;zones are designed&nbsp;to attracforeign&nbsp;direct&nbsp;investment,&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;support&nbsp;knowledgetransfer,&nbsp;to generateemployment&nbsp;and to drive&nbsp;upgrades&nbsp;in the hosteconomy,&nbsp;mostlythrough&nbsp;export&nbsp;stimulus.&nbsp;The net economic&nbsp;contribution&nbsp;of free zones&nbsp;has been&nbsp;a matterof&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;debate,&nbsp;primarily&nbsp;due to a lack&nbsp;of measurable&nbsp;data&nbsp;that&nbsp;&nbsp;could&nbsp;be&nbsp;&nbsp;compared&nbsp;acrossregions&nbsp;and industries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several&nbsp;countries&nbsp;across&nbsp;the globe&nbsp;are considering closing&nbsp;someof their&nbsp;free zonesout of concern&nbsp;that their&nbsp;contribution&nbsp;to the domestic&nbsp;economy&nbsp;may nothave&nbsp;been&nbsp;significant&nbsp;enough.&nbsp;In other words,&nbsp;free zones&nbsp;are supposed&nbsp;to create&nbsp;valuefor the governments&nbsp;that build&nbsp;them.&nbsp;It is more&nbsp;crucial&nbsp;than&nbsp;ever&nbsp;that a free zone&nbsp;generatethis value in order to justify its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offering&nbsp;looser&nbsp;environmental&nbsp;regulation in free zones&nbsp;is no longera viable&nbsp;solution.&nbsp;The17 UN Sustainable&nbsp;Development&nbsp;Goals have&nbsp;become&nbsp;a standard&nbsp;to track&nbsp;environmentalimpact&nbsp;in global&nbsp;ventures.&nbsp;Businesses&nbsp;now&nbsp;use their&nbsp;green&nbsp;development strategies&nbsp;asmarketing&nbsp;hooks&nbsp;of credibility&nbsp;to lure customers&nbsp;and clients.&nbsp;Infrastructure,policies&nbsp;andprocesses&nbsp;in free&nbsp;zones&nbsp;must&nbsp;now&nbsp;incorporate&nbsp;a&nbsp;&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;component&nbsp;to be&nbsp;&nbsp;trulycompetitive&nbsp;on the worldstage,&nbsp;and allow&nbsp;their&nbsp;client&nbsp;companies&nbsp;to do so too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thisrequires&nbsp;either&nbsp;adaptation&nbsp;or redirection when&nbsp;developing&nbsp;and managing&nbsp;free zones.Theright approach to sustainability will generate solid, long-term value for the host economy.Patterns&nbsp;of internationalproductionand globalvalue&nbsp;chains&nbsp;are&nbsp;&nbsp;changing.&nbsp;UNCTAD\u2019slatest&nbsp;World&nbsp;Investment&nbsp;Report&nbsp;cites rising&nbsp;protectionismand shifting&nbsp;trade preferencesas reasons&nbsp;to prompt&nbsp;international&nbsp;cooperationon free zone&nbsp;development&nbsp;to face&nbsp;thischallenge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;should&nbsp;give rise to more regional&nbsp;and cross-border&nbsp;zones,&nbsp;which&nbsp;in turn signals a shift towards international collaboration between governments to generate valuein free zones.The public and private&nbsp;sector&nbsp;can both&nbsp;benefit&nbsp;from&nbsp;free zones&nbsp;as they create&nbsp;value together.&nbsp;Governmentshave&nbsp;handed over&nbsp;the development,&nbsp;operation,&nbsp;and sometimesownership&nbsp;of free&nbsp;zones&nbsp;to private&nbsp;companies&nbsp;to either&nbsp;mitigate&nbsp;costs&nbsp;or simplifyadministration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be successful,&nbsp;public and private&nbsp;sectors&nbsp;must&nbsp;listen&nbsp;to each&nbsp;other&nbsp;andfind common ground to build&nbsp;the right&nbsp;blend&nbsp;of infrastructure,&nbsp;regulation and incentivesthat will unlock&nbsp;synergies&nbsp;and invite&nbsp;the kind of investment&nbsp;that free zones&nbsp;are meant&nbsp;toattract.To better&nbsp;help&nbsp;free&nbsp;zone&nbsp;operators,&nbsp;authorities,government&nbsp;officials&nbsp;and&nbsp;privatecompanies&nbsp;work&nbsp;together&nbsp;to create&nbsp;value&nbsp;in free zones,&nbsp;we have&nbsp;identified five areas&nbsp;toaddress&nbsp;during&nbsp;our annual&nbsp;conference.&nbsp;As we expandour reach&nbsp;through&nbsp;our regionaloffices,&nbsp;our digital&nbsp;tools,&nbsp;and our metrics solutions,&nbsp;these&nbsp;panels&nbsp;will provide&nbsp;a productiveand important&nbsp;bridge&nbsp;between&nbsp;the different&nbsp;elements&nbsp;of success&nbsp;in new and existing&nbsp;freezone environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onedrive.live.com\/?authkey=%21AJRme%2D99FAko%5FMQ&amp;cid=DB337278F512808A&amp;id=DB337278F512808A%2163140&amp;parId=DB337278F512808A%2162953&amp;o=OneUp\">Read the full  report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><small> 3 minutos<\/small> Free&nbsp;zones are designed&nbsp;to attracforeign&nbsp;direct&nbsp;investment,&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;support&nbsp;knowledgetransfer,&nbsp;to generateemployment&nbsp;and to drive&nbsp;upgrades&nbsp;in the hosteconomy,&nbsp;mostlythrough&nbsp;export&nbsp;stimulus.&nbsp;The net economic&nbsp;contribution&nbsp;of free zones&nbsp;has been&nbsp;a matterof&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;debate,&nbsp;primarily&nbsp;due to a lack&nbsp;of measurable&nbsp;data&nbsp;that&nbsp;&nbsp;could&nbsp;be&nbsp;&nbsp;compared&nbsp;acrossregions&nbsp;and industries.&nbsp; Several&nbsp;countries&nbsp;across&nbsp;the globe&nbsp;are considering closing&nbsp;someof their&nbsp;free zonesout of concern&nbsp;that their&nbsp;contribution&nbsp;to the domestic&nbsp;economy&nbsp;may nothave&nbsp;been&nbsp;significant&nbsp;enough.&nbsp;In other words,&nbsp;free zones&nbsp;are supposed&nbsp;to create&nbsp;valuefor the governments&nbsp;that build&nbsp;them.&nbsp;It is more&nbsp;crucial&nbsp;than&nbsp;ever&nbsp;that a free zone&nbsp;generatethis value in order to justify its existence. Offering&nbsp;looser&nbsp;environmental&nbsp;regulation in free zones&nbsp;is no longera viable&nbsp;solution.&nbsp;The17 UN Sustainable&nbsp;Development&nbsp;Goals have&nbsp;become&nbsp;a standard&nbsp;to track&nbsp;environmentalimpact&nbsp;in global&nbsp;ventures.&nbsp;Businesses&nbsp;now&nbsp;use their&nbsp;green&nbsp;development strategies&nbsp;asmarketing&nbsp;hooks&nbsp;of credibility&nbsp;to lure customers&nbsp;and clients.&nbsp;Infrastructure,policies&nbsp;andprocesses&nbsp;in free&nbsp;zones&nbsp;must&nbsp;now&nbsp;incorporate&nbsp;a&nbsp;&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;component&nbsp;to be&nbsp;&nbsp;trulycompetitive&nbsp;on the worldstage,&nbsp;and allow&nbsp;their&nbsp;client&nbsp;companies&nbsp;to do so too.&nbsp; Thisrequires&nbsp;either&nbsp;adaptation&nbsp;or redirection when&nbsp;developing&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/value-creation-free-zones-building-stakeholders-resilience\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue lendo<\/span>\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-adm_hb2018","post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-relatorios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}