African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation
Is the African dream of industrialisation via special economic zones (SEZs) hosting global value chains (GVCs) feasible? SEZs are “demarcated geographic areas contained within a country’s national boundaries where the rules of business are different from those that prevail in the national territory....
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| description | Is the African dream of industrialisation via special economic zones (SEZs) hosting global value chains (GVCs) feasible? SEZs are “demarcated geographic areas contained within a country’s national boundaries where the rules of business are different from those that prevail in the national territory.” Key success factors for SEZs are cheap labour, large domestic markets, proximity to inputs, and high quality infrastructure, supported by strong institutions and leadership. In a way, many SEZs are cross-border versions of industrial parks, designed to enhance industrialization by attracting investment, improving export performance, creating employment, and generating “cluster effects” among tenants. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1422352023-08-21T06:20:36Z African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation Rafiq Raji Nanyang Business School Business Business::General Automation Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Is the African dream of industrialisation via special economic zones (SEZs) hosting global value chains (GVCs) feasible? SEZs are “demarcated geographic areas contained within a country’s national boundaries where the rules of business are different from those that prevail in the national territory.” Key success factors for SEZs are cheap labour, large domestic markets, proximity to inputs, and high quality infrastructure, supported by strong institutions and leadership. In a way, many SEZs are cross-border versions of industrial parks, designed to enhance industrialization by attracting investment, improving export performance, creating employment, and generating “cluster effects” among tenants. Published version 2020-06-17T08:45:47Z 2020-06-17T08:45:47Z 2019 Newsletter Rafiq Raji. (2019). African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation. Africa Current Issues, 1. doi:10.32655/AfricaCurrentIssues.2019.01 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142235 10.32655/AfricaCurrentIssues.2019.01 1 en Africa Current Issues This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Business Business::General Automation Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Rafiq Raji African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation |
| title | African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation |
| title_full | African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation |
| title_fullStr | African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation |
| title_full_unstemmed | African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation |
| title_short | African SEZs & GVCs in the Age of Automation |
| title_sort | african sezs gvcs in the age of automation |
| topic | Business Business::General Automation Special Economic Zones (SEZs) |
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