A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone.
The category SEZ covers, including free trade zones (FTZ), export processing Zones (EPZ), free Zones (FZ), industrial parks or industrial estates (IE), free ports, free economic zones, urban enterprise zones and others.
Usually the goal of a structure is to increase foreign direct investment by foreign investors, typically an international business or a multinational corporation (MNC), development of infrastructure and to increase the employment.
Read more about Special Economic Zone: Bangladesh, Cayman Islands, China, Democratic Republic of The Congo, Greece, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia
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