Making use of a global partitioning (disintegration) approach, a novel necessary and sufficient condition for the creation of Pareto-improving special economic zones is derived. It is shown that the establishment of a special economic zone may be desirable even if foreign investment has an...

This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia...