Foreign direct investment flows to developing countries have undergone major changes in recent years, both regarding their scope and their determinants. This article reviews some new trends in this area and focuses specifically on their implications for export processing zones which in the past...

Industrial technologies are both an outcome of the industrialization process and one of its main driving forces. The introduction of new technologies can be seen as one of several important factors which directly and indirectly change the context and modes of international industrial production,...

The export processing zones (EPZ's) of South Korea are put into the perspective of the country's overall industrialization strategy and the special role and objectives assigned to them are described. The actual performance of the EPZ's is analyzed in terms of various criteria (for example,...