In the view of most concerned professionals, zoning legislation is a necessary bulwark against chaos in urban land use. Without zoning, it is contended, external diseconomies will abound: pickle works will come to rest cheek-by-jowl with single family homes; glue factories beside country clubs;...

This article summarizes an empirical survey of Oregon planning commissions, to determine whether Oregon's occupational restrictions on commission appointments are working. An earlier survey found that zoning boards in Iowa were heavily populated with white-collar occupations, with many having a...

The Government of India has framed Special Economic Zone (“SEZ”) Policy to remove shortcomings of EPZ, create world-class infrastructure and provide a stable fiscal regime to attract larger foreign investments in India. A large number of incentives and facilities have been offered to the...

A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic laws that are more liberal than a country's typical economic laws. With a view to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of world-class infrastructure, and...

This paper examines the impact of multinational firm entry into local labor markets on employment, productivity, and wages. It exploits a natural experiment associated with the People's Republic of China's rapid economic reforms and assignment of cities to special economic zone status in the...

"An enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51 percent of the capital and giving at least 51 percent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women."Women are regarded as better half of the society. In traditional Indian societies, they were...

Most studies of income determination in post-Mao China reduce nonwage forms of compensation (benefits) to their monetary equivalent and are only concerned with their contribution to total incomes. I suggest instead that the nature, function and combination of benefits are as important as their...

This report presents the results obtained from the application the EUClueScanner land-use model for the simulation of two policy alternatives relevant to Integrated Coastal Zones Management in Europe. The 'Uncontrolled' and the 'Sustainable' options have been compared against a third neutral...

This report presents the results obtained from the application the EUClueScanner land-use model for the simulation of two policy alternatives relevant to Integrated Coastal Zones Management in Europe. The 'Uncontrolled' and the 'Sustainable' options have been compared against a third neutral...