Export processing zones as industrial policy: the international experience / Zonas de processamento de exportações com política industrial: a experiência internacional

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2005

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The primary objective of this dissertation is to examine, based on evidence from the international experience, how the use of Export Processing Zones (EPZs), as an instrument of economic policy, influences a countrys economic growth and other economic indicators. To do this, in addition to examining a number of country case studies where governments have employed EPZs, we base our analysis on the theoretical literature on economic growth (both neoclassical and endogenous) and recent, theoretically focused, empirical analyses of economic growth. The primary analytical framework employed in this dissertation is an extension of recent empirical studies by: (i) Barro and Sala-i-Martin (2004) and (ii) Loayza, Fajnzylber and Calderon (2004). The emphasis of both these studies is to explain how economic growth is empirically related to various determinants, including economic policy variables. Panel data from large international samples of countries are used for the period 1960-1999, with estimates undertaken by econometric methods. The innovation of the present dissertation is the introduction of a dummy variable for the presence of functioning EPZs to measure their effects on economic growth. The analytical results obtained support the contention that the introduction of export processing zones, consistent with the extended theory of endogenous economic growth, positively and significantly influences economic growth.

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política econômica política industrial zonas de processamento de exportações crescimento econômico economic policy industrial policy economic growth export process in zones economia

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