Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Schools or Stopgaps?

Schrank, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.08.005

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“…Willmore (1995), on the contrary, argues that judged by its ability to promote exports without threatening local producers, the Dominican SEZ program has been an unqualified success. Sanchez-Ancochea (2006) and Schrank (2008) qualify this assertion and suggest that the success of SEZ beyond export promotion hinges on the extent to which they have integrated with the local economy -an argument formalized by Rodríguez-Clare (1996). Our paper contributes to this discussion by assessing how recent policy efforts aimed at promoting a new wave of SEZ that goes beyond the low-skill-intensive enclaves of the past, have affected export outcomesarguably, one of the key performance dimensions for SEZ.…”

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Does the Elimination of Export Requirements in Special Economic Zones Affect Export Performance? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Defever¹,

Reyes²,

Riaño³

et al. 2016

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…Schrank (2008) reports that the share of aggregate exports accounted for by SEZ exceeded 80% in the early 2000s…”

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Does the Elimination of Export Requirements in Special Economic Zones Affect Export Performance? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Defever¹,

Reyes²,

Riaño³

et al. 2016

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“…In the case of the Dominican Republic, after being granted NAFTA parity in 2000, apparel came to constitute more than half the countries' exports to the USA with upwards of 80% of apparel exports being preferential. Here too exporters constituted the cornerstone of the political coalition in support of the RTA with the United States (Schrank , ). While traditional manufacturers based on the capital actively lobbied against DR‐CAFTA, groups of newer, nontraditional export groups in export‐processing zones provided the bulwark of support for the agreement.…”

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“…While traditional manufacturers based on the capital actively lobbied against DR‐CAFTA, groups of newer, nontraditional export groups in export‐processing zones provided the bulwark of support for the agreement. Indeed, it was their strength that allowed the agreement to go forward over the objections of the traditional ISI‐focused industrial class in Santo Domingo (Schrank :1390–1391).…”

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Political Trade Dependence and North-South Trade Agreements

Manger

Shadlen

2013

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Why do developing countries negotiate North-South trade agreements, when they already enjoy preferential market access to developed-country markets? Most developing countries benefit from the generalized system of preferences (GSP) and related schemes when they export to the United States, the EU, and other developed economies. And yet, many pursue fully reciprocal agreements that require major concessions to the developed partner. We argue that this is due to the nature of the GSP as a unilateral concession that can be (and often is) taken away. High dependence on unilateral, removable preferences generates "political trade dependence" (PTD). We distinguish PTD from standard measures of trade dependence, and we explain why PTD motivates developing countries to seek North-South Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). We show the effects of PTD with a selection of illustrative cases and test our hypothesis on a data set of EU and US trade agreements with developing countries. We find robust statistical support for our hypothesis that high and rising levels of PTD make the negotiation of a North-South RTA more likely.2 GATT Art. 24, which establishes the legal groundwork for bilateral trade agreements, requires the elimination of duties "with respect to substantially all the trade." Most observers refer to reciprocal preferential trade agreements as "preferential trade agreements." However, to make a clear distinction between preferential programs such as the GSP and reciprocal trade agreements under Art. 24 of the GATT, we refer to the latter as "regional trade agreements" in line with WTO terminology-even though we are clearly not referring to regions in a geographical sense.International Studies Quarterly (2014) 58, 79-91

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“…A history of local control over industry and commercial crop cultivation (particularly tobacco) through networks of small-holding producers in the north stands in contrast to the east, where sugar plantations and foreign ownership predominated until the rise of the trade zone model in the 1980s (Moya Pons 1992). Patterns of ownership in the trade zones reflect these divergent trajectories: in the north, the percentage of ownership of firms by domestic capital was three times that of the east (and nearly four times that of the capital) in 2004 (Schrank 2008). The implications of this history are considerable not only for the formation of the local capitalist class, but also for capital-labor relations, evident in unionization trends that run counter to gendered assumptions of docile, female labor.…”

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Beyond Upgrading: Gendered Labor and the Restructuring of Firms in the Dominican Republic

Werner¹

2012

Economic Geography

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In the literature on global commodity chains, industrial upgrading describes the process whereby firms shift to more secure or more profitable niches within or between industries through organizational learning facilitated by networks. While the framework of upgrading identifies key dynamics of competition between capitals, it nonetheless sidelines inquiry into how such imperatives condition and are conditioned by labor. To address this conceptual weakness, I argue that studies of the restructuring of production networks can be enriched through a feminist analysis of value. In particular, the efforts of firms to reposition themselves in networks should be considered in light of struggles to rework the basis of labor's value to capital, a process of reproducing and recombining interlocking social differences into novel combinations of exploitable workers. I explore this process through an in‐depth case study of a large garment firm in the Dominican Republic, in which upgrading involved the reworking of skilled and unskilled work, animated by gendered practices and norms, that led to the masculinization of skilled sewing and the feminization of new service engineering functions.

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Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Schools or Stopgaps?

Cited by 18 publications

References 47 publications

Does the Elimination of Export Requirements in Special Economic Zones Affect Export Performance? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Does the Elimination of Export Requirements in Special Economic Zones Affect Export Performance? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Political Trade Dependence and North-South Trade Agreements

Beyond Upgrading: Gendered Labor and the Restructuring of Firms in the Dominican Republic

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