Socio-Economic Spillovers from Special Economic Zones

Special Economic Zones and Economic Corridors

Various reports show that special economic zones (SEZ) have become a prime catalyst for regional development in developing countries such as China and the ASEAN countries. The SEZ can be defined as a specific geographical region with economic laws that are more liberal than a country's typical economic laws. Many SEZs have characteristics of bonded zones, export processing zone (EPZ) or free tr...

The Economic Impact of Special Economic Zones: Evidence from Chinese Municipalities

How large are the bene…ts of Special Economic Zones and what are the channels of these bene…ts? To shed some light on these questions, I collect a unique dataset of Chinese municipality economic statistics from 1978 to 2007 and use it to evaluate the impact of a Special Economic Zone experiment aimed at attracting foreign direct investment. Guided by three predictions from a theoretical model, ...

Institutional Spillovers and Economic Growth

Education , Socio - Economic Inequality , and Economic Development

Section II presents the empirical results of this study. While the underlying econometric model follows the standard ‘new growth’ literature procedure of regression analysis in a cross-section of countries, it goes beyond the existing studies in drawing on a data set including proxies for technical progress and educational attainment as well as devoting special attention to different levels of ...

Socio-economic database online

The SEDO project develops a platform combining fast access, user freedom, and coherence of the results for presenting complex socio-economic data. As an initial yield, this joint project involving two research actors of Luxembourg, the CEPS/INSTEAD for the content and the CRP-Gabriel Lippman for the technical realization, will deliver on the Net the results of longitudinal surveys about the lif...