Special Economic Zones: Boon or bane for emerging country firms?
An industrial policy measure to attract foreign investment to the private sector.
An industrial policy measure to attract foreign investment to the private sector.
A new location- and sector-focused approach to drive structural transformation.
Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis.
Effective place-based policies need to deliver desired spatial economic cohesion while minimizing resource waste and secondary distortions.
Embedding digitalization as part of the wider industrialization strategy can enable developing country firms to climb up the value chain ladder.
China’s post-COVID-19 recovery may hold clues to the future of global value chains.
COVID-19 struck at the core of GVC hub regions, with severe implications for international production networks.