This Selected Issues paper analyzes recent economic developments and policies in Madagascar. Real GDP growth in 2001 was 6 percent, continuing the trend of sustained increase in per capita real GDP that began during the period 1997–2000. The secondary and tertiary sectors were the main...

Chinese city-level data indicate that differences in growth rates are far more severe than indicated in previous studies which typically use data at higher levels of aggregation. We estimate growth equations using city-level data and find that the policy of awarding a special economic zone...

Making use of a global partitioning (disintegration) approach, a novel necessary and sufficient condition for the creation of Pareto-improving special economic zones is derived. It is shown that the establishment of a special economic zone may be desirable even if foreign investment has an...

In this paper, the spatial characteristics of road crashes in Hong Kong are analyzed. This paper first introduces the hot zone terminology in road safety research. Then, the methodological issues and difficulties are discussed. Finally, the spatial characteristics of road crashes in Hong Kong in...

Special Economic Zones (SEZ) have occupied a center stage in the national perception .The first EPZ in India, also the first in Asia, had been set up in Kandla way back in 1965. The policy initiative of April 2000 for setting up Special Economic Zones aimed at providing a globally competitive...