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Do enterprise zones promote local business development? Evidence from Vietnam

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  • Vu, Manh Tien
  • Yamada, Hiroyuki

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We examined the effects of Vietnamese enterprise zones on local businesses based on different patterns of place-based policies as well as the ownership structure of the zone infrastructure developers (ZIDs). We constructed a panel of communes during 2000-2007 using a census survey of firms having more than nine employees and a census of zones and zone-based firms.We found that place-based policies led to growth in the number of jobs and firms in the communes where enterprise zones were located, even after excluding zone-based firms. Our findings also suggest that privately owned ZIDs worked best under corporate-tax incentives, while zones with a designated central government agency as the ZID had adverse spillover effects on business development in neighboring communes of the same district.

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  • Vu, Manh Tien & Yamada, Hiroyuki, 2019. "Do enterprise zones promote local business development? Evidence from Vietnam," AGI Working Paper Series 2019-04, Asian Growth Research Institute.
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    Keywords

    Enterprise zone; Place-based policy; Infrastructure; Private sector; Local business;
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    JEL classification:

    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O25 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
    • L53 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Enterprise Policy
    • L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods

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