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Globalists

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expanding political representation. The price mechanism was permitted without the mechanism of popular sovereignty—the multiparty election. In 1979, China opened the country’s first export processing zones in the Pearl River Delta, a region of exception outside of the national tax structure that would become a defining form of neoliberal-style development

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. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010); Streeck, Buying Time. 21. See Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (New York: Verso, 2014); Patrick Neveling, “Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and the Long March of Capitalist Development Policies during the Cold War,” in Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, ed. Leslie

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) Minds.” 100. Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), 382. On EPZs, see Patrick Neveling, “The Global Spread of Export Processing Zones and the 1970s as a Decade of Consolidation,” in Changes in Social Regulation: State, Economy, and Social Protagonists since the 1970s, ed. Knud Andersen and

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in a bewildering range of varieties—at least eighty-two, by one official reckoning.5 Among the more prominent are the special economic zone, the export-processing zone, and the foreign-trade zone. At one end of the socioeconomic spectrum, zones can be nodes in the networks of cross-border manufacturing.6 Often

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—now updated and enlarged in synthetic marble. At independence, one of Singapore’s models was the US island possession of Puerto Rico, a pioneer in export processing zones, which experienced a flurry of industrial activity after the Second World War by attracting investors to simple factories funded by tax breaks and filled largely

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added a cultural gloss to the strategy of fragmentation through special economic zones. Rather than merely miniatures of the Hong Kong Crown Colony or copycat export processing zones, these were presented as part of the localism of traditional Chinese villages, and an inheritance of a decentralized form of imperial rule. Confucian capitalism opened

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as “Africa’s Switzerland” was a caricature case of corporate welfare, overseen by union breakers willing to murder. The instrument used in Ciskei was the export processing zone, or EPZ. An EPZ traced out a patch of territory that was legally designated as outside the host country: an offshore space without leaving home

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by foreign companies. From the 1960s onward, it fell under successive US-supported military dictatorships.11 In 1976, the country joined the first wave of export processing zones, giving tax breaks to companies in Puerto Cortés, a port city on the Caribbean coast named after the conquistador who landed there in 1526. From

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Shaxson, Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011); and Patrick Neveling, “Free Trade Zones, Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and Global Imperial Formations 200 BCE to 2015 CE,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, ed. Immanuel Ness and

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Workers Union, AFL-CIO, CLC. 97th Congress, second session, March 22, 1982, 51–52. For work by the authoritative scholar on EPZs see Patrick Neveling, “Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and the Long March of Capitalist Development Policies During the Cold War,” in Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, ed. Leslie

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also well established in European colonial possessions in South and Southeast Asia. In addition, the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 divided up Africa into European export-processing zones that promised more colonial coffee production. Moreover, the nearby republics of Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Colombia had also gone in strongly for coffee during the Latin

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things.” Whatever the cause, the agreement was enormously successful. Leading Franco-Mauritians began to invest aggressively in international tourism. They also spearheaded the development of Export Processing Zones (EPZs)—an idea that had been rejected by the development community as impracticable.88 Exports from the EPZs grew over 30 percent annually from 1971

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standards and ‘kicking away the ladder’47 Korea and Taiwan are often seen as pioneers of pro-FDI policy, thanks to their early successes with export-processing zones (EPZs), where the investing foreign firms were little regulated. But, outside these zones, they actually imposed many restrictive policies on foreign investors. These restrictions allowed

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from selling into the domestic market, which protected Chinese industries from foreign competition. They were initially located in Special Economic Zones, which were created as export-processing zones similar to its East Asian neighbours. China thus became integrated with East Asia, as it joined regional and global production chains, and eventually became the

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, it realized early on that it could not do without world trade, and import substitution was abolished as early as the 1970s. The country introduced export-processing zones where a deregulated textile industry could grow, and the economy has continued to diversify with a modern service sector. After uninterrupted high growth, Mauritius was

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for their nation’s development. It is not enough to draw in a few offshore production facilities that create a few new jobs in an export processing zone. Industrialization and broader development only come by densifying participation in these international production networks. This can happen far faster as global value chains remove bottlenecks

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