The effects of special economic zones on employment and investment: a spatial panel modeling perspective

Ciżkowicz, Piotr; Ciżkowicz-Pękała, Magda; Pękała, Piotr; Rzońca, Andrzej

doi:10.1093/jeg/lbw028

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“…Furthermore, Guruswamy (2018) shows that across different parts of the world, there is a broad consensus among experts that EPZs have substantially generated investment, boosted economic activities, promoted infrastructure, improved gender equality, generated jobs, and enhanced human resource development, particularly in low-income and emerging economies. These views have been confirmed by a substantial body of literature supporting the role of EPZs in sustainable development, notably in generating inflows of investment (Darley 2012;Graham 2014), employment opportunities (Ciżkowicz et al 2017;Newman and Page 2017), industrial production boost, and export-driven economic development (Farole 2011;Johansson and Nilsson 1997;Zeng 2010). In essence, EPZs can provide support for local communities and economies while at the same time enabling countries to leverage global market dynamics within the framework of the SDGs (Guruswamy 2018).…”

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A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Adu-Gyamfi¹,

Asongu²,

Mmusi³

et al. 2020

WIDER Working Paper

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Section: The Nexus Between Epzs and Sdgsmentioning

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A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Adu-Gyamfi¹,

Asongu²,

Mmusi³

et al. 2020

WIDER Working Paper

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“…The effectiveness of the policy was evaluated at firm level. This approach is not new in the evaluation literature of location-based policies (Chaurey, 2017;Cizkowicz, Cizkowicz-Pekala, Pekala, & Rzonca, 2017;Givord et al, 2013). Firm-level data make it possible to evaluate the policy by exploiting more information than in the case of macro (census) data.…”

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A new phoenix? Large plants regeneration policies in Italy

Accetturo

Albanese

D’Ignazio

2020

Journal of Regional Science

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The fall of employment in manufacturing that the world's most advanced economies have been experiencing in the past 40 years has triggered a number of policies, undertaken in several countries. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of a place‐based policy, carried out in Italy, aimed at both generating private investments and increasing employment in areas affected by deep industrial decline. By means of an instrumental variable identification strategy, we show that the program has been largely unsuccessful.

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“…5 Wang (2013) uses a generalized difference-in-differences approach to demonstrate positive dynamic impacts of Chinese SEZs on local municipal economies neighboring SEZs, as measured by domestic investment, TFP growth, and local factor prices. Similarly, Ciżkowicz et al (2016) apply fixed effects models to a merged firm and district-level panel dataset from Poland and find that SEZs have substantial positive effects on employment, for both the SEZ firms and outside firms in the host and neighboring counties. Finally, Alkon (2018) combines an original subdistrict-level dataset on Indian SEZs and census data and creates a synthetic control group using propensity score matching.…”

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“…However, their data sample consists of export-orientated medium-sized enterprises (with more than 30 employees) within SEZs who are more likely to fall in the category of static rather than dynamic effects. There are also several recent empirical studies on dynamic effects of SEZ conducted by Alkon (2018); Ciżkowicz et al (2016); Wang (2013). However, apart from Ciżkowicz et al (2016), who study firm-level effects in the context of Poland, the remainder all study territorial-level outcomes.…”

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“…There are also several recent empirical studies on dynamic effects of SEZ conducted by Alkon (2018); Ciżkowicz et al (2016); Wang (2013). However, apart from Ciżkowicz et al (2016), who study firm-level effects in the context of Poland, the remainder all study territorial-level outcomes. To the best of our knowledge, ours is thus the first study which attempts to estimate dynamic linkage and spillover effects on local micro-and small enterprise-level outcomes in a developing country context.…”

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Preparing Fertile Ground: How Does the Business Environment Affect Outcomes From Microfinance?

Krauss

2020

SSRN Journal

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Entrepreneurial clients of microfinance providers are expected to invest in and grow their businesses, according to the standard claim of the financial inclusion industry. Yet, transformative effects on microfinance client business growth have largely been unrealized in most randomized controlled trial studies on microcredit. While these studies have been quite instructive, their broader policy relevance may be limited by their short timescales, localized geographic coverage, and invariance of business environments in which client businesses operate. In this paper, we draw on longer-term nationwide administrative data from a leading Cambodian financial service provider and exploit a quasi-natural experiment to test if and to what extent differences in business environments affect clients' business growth, when access to financial services is not a primary constraint. Our main finding is that positive district-level shocks to the business environment lead to increased employment in exposed client enterprises compared to client enterprises in contextually similar districts but who are unexposed. The effect is particularly strong for small (rather than micro) enterprises and clients located in districts with larger local economic markets. Finally, we pool data from past impact evaluations to demonstrate how a number of related business environment factors help explain heterogeneity found in their results. Policy implications are that microfinance clientele respond to opportunities provided by local business environments and that governments can play more active roles in improving business framework conditions.

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The effects of special economic zones on employment and investment: a spatial panel modeling perspective

Cited by 32 publications

References 41 publications

A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

A new phoenix? Large plants regeneration policies in Italy

Preparing Fertile Ground: How Does the Business Environment Affect Outcomes From Microfinance?

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