Special economic zones in South Asia : structural change, competitiveness and growth

"Growth enhancing structural change - a relocation of labor from low to high productivity sectors is increasingly perceived as inextricably linked with the sustainable development agenda. In the pursuit of structural change, policy makers have pinned their hopes on targeted policy tools such as...

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Main Author Aggarwal, Aradhna (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024.
SeriesRoutledge Studies in Development Economics Series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003451426
100345142X
9781032587752
9781032587769
9781003851455
1003851452
9781003851424
1003851428
Physical Description1 online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Economic growth accelerations in South Asia
  • Growth acceleration and patterns and pace of structural change
  • International competitiveness : export growth, diversification and upgrading
  • SEZs as a development policy : revisiting the place based approach
  • Economic rationale of SEZs in south asia : the institutional perspective
  • The SEZ policy in India : a flip flop approach
  • Evolution of SEZ policy in sri lanka : an interplay of political and economic dynamics
  • SEZ policy in Pakistan : a passive approach
  • Bangladesh : driving SEZ centric industrialisation
  • Assessing the SEZ policy design fit with its evolutionary dynamics
  • Evaluating the impact of SEZs on investment climate
  • SEZs, investment climate and competitiveness
  • Linkages for knowledge spillovers
  • Labour and environment standards in South Asian SEZs : the legal perspective
  • The concluding remarks.