Zoning in on Mauritius Special Economic Zones: Structure, Evolution and Economic Impact

Tang, Vanessa T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96166-8_4

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“…Unsurprisingly, Trinidad and Tobago is above at 29 percent, but both Mauritius and Tonga also have above GA shares. In the case of Mauritius, this is due to a labour-intensive industrialization and economic upgrading trajectory spearheaded by the long-standing garment industry (Tang, 2019). At the other end of the scale, we find Haiti at 7 percent and Vanuatu at a bare 5.4 percent of the labour force in industry.…”

Section: The Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 71%

How do Small Island Developing States Meet the Sustainable Development Goals?

Hillbom¹,

Palacio²,

Tegunimataka³

2022

JSD

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States in the Global South are facing a double challenge of achieving socio-economic development while adapting to climate change impacts. This study maps to what extent Small Island Developing States (SIDS) manage to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SIDS are at the front line of climate change and while they share numerous challenges, the SIDS are also a heterogeneous group containing a great variation in terms of economic development, institutional structures, and factor endowments. This paper complements the existing broader international evaluation of SDG outcomes by highlighting SIDS specifically, a group that has been only sporadically covered in the literature. By improving our understanding of different SIDS’s development status and challenges we hope both to make the group more visible in the global debate and to contribute useful knowledge to the ongoing development work in and between the SIDS themselves. We compare the SIDS development performance, defined as meeting the SDGs, to a Global Average (GA), in the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social, and environmental. Our investigation confirms that the SIDS are overrepresented among the countries in the world with the poorest data coverage and shows the magnitude of the problem. Further, in our global comparison, we find that they stand out in three aspects – having relatively low levels of poverty, high levels of adult obesity, and low levels of gender equality especially manifested in the share of women in parliament.

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Section: The Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 71%

How do Small Island Developing States Meet the Sustainable Development Goals?

Hillbom¹,

Palacio²,

Tegunimataka³

2022

JSD

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“…The other lesson concerns coordination and cooperation, as reflected in the challenges faced by a China-sponsored SEZ in Mauritius. One of the first African nations to use EPZs in the 1970s, earlier than China, Mauritius has seen its own EPZs and SEZs through stages of change and continuity that mirror the periods of global and Chinese SEZ evolution in response to shifted comparative advantages (tables 1 and 2 in this paper; Tang, 2019). Planned in partnership with Chinese textile company Tianli in 2006 to do manufacturing, the Mauritian zone struggled early on from the global financial crisis that severely weakened the Chinese company's ability to bring over investment for on-site development.…”

Section: Global Sez Development: a Synthesis Of Chinese Lessonsmentioning

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Change and continuity in special economic zones:a reassessment and lessons from China

Chen¹

2019

Transnational Corporations

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Zoning in on Mauritius Special Economic Zones: Structure, Evolution and Economic Impact

Cited by 2 publications

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How do Small Island Developing States Meet the Sustainable Development Goals?

How do Small Island Developing States Meet the Sustainable Development Goals?

Change and continuity in special economic zones:a reassessment and lessons from China

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