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"Many developing countries operate geographically delineated economic areas in the form of export processing zones, special industrial zones, or free trade zones. This paper provides an overview of the application of World Trade Organization disciplines to incentive programs typically employed...
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by attracting domestic and foreign investment, promoting exports, and creating employment. Since then, seven free … industrial production from the zones between 2004 and 2014. On average, employment in the economic zones had a robust growth in …
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zones at three levels: (i) fair employment and working conditions for female employees; (ii) equal access to opportunities …
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The Central America region is a small market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants (0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has successfully embarked on a regional integration agenda and...
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"The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
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workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than … wage growth and faster-than-average employment growth. These areas absorbed more than half of net employment growth over … wage and employment changes of Brazilian municipios. They use Conley's spatial GMM technique to allow for instrumental …
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