Special economic zones in Asian market economies
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Special economic zones in Asian market economies
(Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia, 98)
Routledge, 2013
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
"First published 2011 by Routledge"--T.p. verso
"First issued in paperback 2013"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have proliferated rapidly during the past decade and are set to multiply in the next - embracing not only Asia and Europe but also Africa and the Americas. This book is the first to examine the Asian experience of SEZs in China, India, Malaysia and the Philippines. SEZs are usually clearly defined geographic areas in which national, provincial or local governments use policy tools (such as tax holidays; improved infrastructure; less onerous or differentiated regulations and incentives other than those generally available in the rest of the country) to attract and promote private - usually foreign - investment from enterprises which commit to create employment and to export their products or services, and generating foreign currency for the host country. SEZs have been especially successful in bringing about economic development in Asia, especially in China.
This book examines the origins, nature and status of special economic zones in Asia, together with the current trends connected with them, and the challenges they currently face. Although the World Trade Organisation cast doubts in 1995 on the future of special economic zones as a viable policy tool in the development agenda, special economic zones continue to be used, and favoured, as a way of encouraging foreign investment and economic development, with for example India, trying to emulate China, reincorporating special economic zones into its development policy. This book provides regional case studies of SEZs in Asian market economies to analyse the extent to which these zones serve the changing needs of Asian development.
Table of Contents
1. SEZs: Policy incubators or catalysts for development? 2. SEZs: A policy tool in search of a new agenda? 3. SEZs and China's attempt to govern the labour market by law 4. A tale of two Chinese SEZs: From exogenous to sustainable endogenous growth? 5. SEZs and improved environmental management in China 6. SEZs and free ports in the Philippines: Challenges and opportunities in the Bases' Conversion Program 7. Iskandar and SEZs in Malaysia's Dualistic Political Economy 8. SEZs in India: an economic policy or a political intervention? 9. The Indian SEZ Act 2005 and its implications for modelling the law and governance of SEZs Resources
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