This paper analyses the texts on Agriculture and NAMA that emerged from the VI ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Hong Kong (HK) from 13-18 December 2005, which was projected as a ‘success.'

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...

Whether local inclusionary zoning (IZ) ordinances can make significant contributions towards meeting affordable housing needs depends in large part on its legality. Courts have not developed a consistent jurisprudence regarding IZ ordinances. The legality of IZ ordinances depends upon how they...

Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...

This paper analyzes theoretically and practically a tendency of importance the role of Public Interest factors play in International Trade Commission (ITC) 337 investigations as it did in the forum of Anti-Monopoly Law in recent years.It first reviews the development of Public Interest factors...

This article examines new financial policies and regulatory changes adopted in three financial reform oriented special economic zones in China, and analyzes some pitfalls and uncertainties in their liberalizing plans.After the Communist Party of China's (“CCP”) Third Plenum of the 11th...

Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...

In this paper we undertake an ex-post evaluation of whether the special economic zones (SEZs) introduced in Poland in 1994 have been successful in meeting regional development objectives. We evaluate the policy on as many of its objectives as possible: employment creation, business creation...

The influence of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) on the host country's economy has been studied for several decades now. A great number of theoretical papers using models to demonstrate SEZ importance for local development have been produced. However, purely empirical studies utilising the...

We propose in this paper a critical review of the literature on urban enterprise zones. The results that emerge from the papers published over the last twenty years vary a lot across studies. Several explanations can account for these apparently conflicting results. Technical tools and empirical...