Zones franches dans les économies en voie de développement: quelle industrialisation ?

Serge Dubost

Revue d'Économie Industrielle, 1986, vol. 37, issue 1, 31-39

Abstract: [eng] Free zones, as they have benne spreading in the Third World since the mid-1960's, intend to attract foreign direct investment in order to develop manufactured exports. They are the limit of outward-looking policies.. Basing on different samples, this paper examines striking economic characteristics of these areas : concentration of activity on few products, instability of earnings, limited technology transfer. We conclued that zones failed to generate an industrial structure independent of host country development level. [fre] Free zones, as they have benne spreading in the Third World since the mid-1960's, intend to attract foreign direct investment in order to develop manufactured exports. They are the limit of outward-looking policies.. Basing on different samples, this paper examines striking economic characteristics of these areas : concentration of activity on few products, instability of earnings, limited technology transfer. We conclued that zones failed to generate an industrial structure independent of host country development level.

Date: 1986
Note: DOI:10.3406/rei.1986.2185
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