Special Economic Zones: the Chinese Ladder to Get into Neoliberal Globalization

Laura Melissa Naranjo Molano

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: This paper explored how the neoliberalism influenced the formulation, adoption, and implementation of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in China. In grappling with this question, a significant link was found: globalization. This process was driven by openness and liberalization, premises that neoliberalism revived in the global political sphere in the last decades of the 20th century. Then, to get into the world economy, China abandoned the protectionist ladder to take an additional one: formulate and adopt SEZs. These zones allowed China to have free trade policies without internal market liberalization. Furthermore, the implementation of SEZs as cities generated direct access to the neoliberal model of globalization.

Keywords: special economic zone; globalization; neoliberalism; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B27 F13 F68 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2021-03
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