The Goverment of India has decided to fundamentally revise its SEZ Act. In this context, the Export Promotion Council for Export Oriented Units & Special Economic Zones (EPCES) of India has set up a committee to make recommendations to the...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach,...

An expert report commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and authored by project member Prof. Aradhna Aggarwal was recently published and is now publicly available on the ADB website. The report „Special Economic Zones in the...

Since its inception in 1993, the Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) subregional program has attained remarkable economic growth and shared regional prosperity through concerted policy interventions. Yet, there is a mismatch between...

Industrial policies are back on the scene as national economies seek to succeed in global competition amid the Covid-19 pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions such as the US-China trade war. Against this backdrop, Prof. Aradhna Aggarwal discusses...

Project member Prof. Aradhna Aggarwal delivered a public presentation at a conference session on Special Economic Zones and India’s Industrialization. The online session was hosted by the Institute of Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), an...

Project participant Aradhna Aggarwal has completed a study titled „Collaborative Approach to Special Economic Zones’ Development and Cooperation in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle”, which was commissioned by the Asian Development Bank...

The participants of the Special Economic Zones project and some guests (by invitation only) gathered again in the virtual space to report on research progress and share their thoughts and ideas. The two-day event began with presentations of...

On invitation of the FDI Center - a leading advisory firm in the field of foreign direct investment based in Berlin - two of our researchers, Cecília Hornok and Saskia Meuchelböck, gave short video interviews on the topic of industrial zone policies....

Female entrepreneurs in the developing world are severely underperforming. This is the focus of a recent PEGNet Policy Brief “Africa’s Female Entrepreneurs – Towards Funding Success” written by Aoife Hanley from the Kiel Institute and three members...