Global Experiences with Special Economic Zones
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Date of publication
August 2015
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ISBN / Resource ID
oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/22400
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CC BY 3.0 IGO
This paper is intended to provide a
brief overview of the different SEZ experiences in China and
Africa, the key lessons that Africa can learn from China, as
well as the recent Chinese zones in Africa. For this
purpose, the paper is structured in the following way:
section 1 starts with definition of SEZs, then followed with
the Chinese experiences (section 2), African experiences
(section 3), the lessons that Africa can learn from China
(section 4), Chinese zones in Africa (section 5), and then concludes.
