The centennial of the 1916 New York City Ordinance and creation of zoning in the United States provides an exceptional opportunity to reconsider the regulatory and legal basis upon which the key governmental power of zoning is founded. The motive to control the various market externalities...

This study briefly summarizes the development experiences of special economic zones in China and Africa, the lessons that Africa can learn from China, and the preliminary results of the Chinese investments in special economic zones in Africa. The study makes recommendations on how to unleash the...

Support for economic reforms has often shown puzzling dynamics: many reforms that began successfully lost public support. This paper shows that learning dynamics can rationalize this paradox because the process of revealing reform outcomes is an example of sampling without replacement. This...

Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This...

While urban renewal programs have become widely used policy measures to target urban development less is known about the reasons why certain areas are more responsive to policy interventions than others. With this study we address some of these issues by analyzing an urban renewal program in...

While trade liberalization is the major objective that the world trade regime pursues in the long-run, the desirable pace and mode of liberalization for each economy may vary. This is particularly the case for financial liberalization, which involves plenty of prudential concerns such as control...

It is a clear fact that from November last year the world changed considerably, however, before a new geopolitics, it is advisable to have new partners and redesign economic policies according to the needs. For this reason, I would like to point out that this article is still an unfinished...

The European Union's GSP+ scheme provides trade concessions to beneficiary countries and obliges them to ratify and effectively implement key international conventions on human rights and labour rights. The sectoral gains of GSP+ have thus far been concentrated on exports of apparel, textiles...

The European Union's GSP+ scheme provides trade concessions to beneficiary countries and obliges them to ratify and effectively implement key international conventions on human rights and labour rights. The sectoral gains of GSP+ have thus far been concentrated on exports of apparel, textiles...

This report summarises the key findings and conclusions from the Xiamen/China case study that is part of the EC-funded Study on international best practices of cross-border maritime spatial planning. The case study was conducted in the city of Xiamen, province of Fujian between 15 and 25...