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5. Labour and Special Economic Zones

Authors : John Walsh, Burkhard Schrage, Trung Quang Nguyen

Published in: The Political Economy of Vietnam’s Industrial Transformation

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Although the concept of setting aside specific pieces of land to be administered under different forms of low has been pursued for various reasons throughout history, the popularity of the special economic zone (SEZ) really took off when the Chinese government demonstrated that it was possible to use them as a means of raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty without making any concessions to political plurality. This chapter explores the ways in which Vietnam has sought to follow a similar path and the difficulties that have been encountered in trying to do so.

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The term special economic zone (SEZ) is used in this chapter as any piece of land that has been separated in time and space from neighbouring areas and made subject to different laws and regulations. Customarily, the changes in law benefit capital at the expense of labour and these changes are used to encourage greater flows of domestic and foreign direct investment (FDI) into specific geographic areas so as to promote specific developmental goals for those areas. The term SEZ in Vietnam refers to one specific type of zone, which is a subset of all SEZs considered in the chapter.

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Title: Labour and Special Economic Zones
Authors: John Walsh
Burkhard Schrage
Trung Quang Nguyen
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: The Political Economy of Vietnam’s Industrial Transformation
Print ISBN: 978-981-16-0150-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-16-0151-4

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0151-4_5