This Selected Issues paper for Kenya, Uganda, and United Republic of Tanzania highlights their private sector credit markets, identifies their main obstacles in promoting credit to the private sector, and suggests a reform strategy. If the East African Community (EAC) countries decide to pursue...

We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods to improve upon evaluations of the effectiveness of state enterprise zones, focusing on California's program. Because zone boundaries do not follow census tracts or zip codes, we created digitized maps of original zone boundaries...

SEZs have occupied a center stage in the national consciousness for the past few months due to the events unfolding in Singur and subsequently the occurrences in Nandigram (a proposed SEZ). Many economies including India have used the concept of SEZ in one or the other form to promote exports...

This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...

Space matters not only because of the transportation costs it imposes on the economy but also because it can serve as an effective instrument to control pollution damages. Previous models of pollution either disregard space altogether or presume a predetermined separation between polluters and...

French Abstract: Dans la zone cotonnière du Cameroun, la pression foncière croissante a conduit à une augmentation des superficies cultivées et accentué l’érosion des sols causée par l’intensité des pluies sur des sols mal protégés. Depuis deux décennies, les aménagements...

Enclave based policies to promote exports, and consequently economic growth, are not new to India. India's first export zone started in 1964, and six more central government zones were operational by the mid 1990s. However, these zones explain only a fraction of export growth rates in India....

The monograph regards the legal issues of creation, functioning and termination of special economic zones in the Russian Federation with the application of comparative analysis of the provisions of Russian and foreign legislation and practice. The author reveals the legal content of a special...