Politics of India's Special Economic Zones

Reactions to events and ideas connected with India's drive to create ‘business-friendly’ Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Focus is how politics shapes this flagship government initiative to promote investment (foreign & domestic).

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Haryana SEZs on the Radia Tapes

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Mukesh Ambani's Lobbyist Niira Radia tells a journalist that the reason that Reliance has halted work on the Jhajjar SEZ is because of t...

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Another State Passes SEZ Legislation (maybe)

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The Times of India reports that Maharashtra is (soon) to join the group of states that has passed specific SEZ legislation to complement t...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

India woos S'pore investors

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India woos S'pore investors

Friday, February 19, 2010

Indirect Effects of SEZs

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Among the effects of various policy changes in India, as elsewhere, is the indirect effect they have on interest groups who feel 'left b...

Monday, December 28, 2009

Expansion Strategies

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The following item underlined that strategies for assembling SEZs -- and modifying SEZ rules to allow for this -- take a huge range of forms...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Peeling Back the Veil on SEZs

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Since the passage of the SEZ Act, 2005, critics of the new policy have complained that the implementation modalities lend themselves to abus...

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

An Indication of Continued Confusion?

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According to two developers who recently attended a (small!) conference on investment opportunities in India, the lack of clarity about the ...

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