By exploring the role of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlying challenges faced by the economy. This analysis suggests that SEZs enabled the Chinese economy to trigger its growth standards and to achieve its...

Though India’s SEZ policy owes its conceptual base to the successful Chinese SEZs’ experience, hardly any attempt has been made to explain what made the latter so successful. In this article, we trace this phenomenal success to the well articulated and executed SEZ policy in China....

This paper analyzes the fiscal implications of special economic zones (SEZs) on the government exchequer. The analysis is based on aggregating data collected from seven conventional SEZs and taking 1990–1991 to 2007–2008 as the reference period. The exercise reveals that the government has...