Exporting Processing Zones, Industrial Upgrading and Economic Development
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This paper discusses the expansion of EZPs in spite of growing international political and economic resistance and how they have transformed in the face of this resistance.
Driven by the ongoing desire to expand exports, to tap into existing global supply chains for goods and services, and to create jobs and skills, governments have continued over the past five years to support an expansion of export processing zones (EZPs).