EPZS are especially common in the following industries: garments\/textiles, electronics, footwear\/sporting apparel, toys, and pharmaceuticals.\u00a0 Critics of these enclaves claim that the \u201ctrickle down\u201d benefits touted by liberals are arrested or irrelevant in zones of exploitation. This is alleged because of a state-to-state competition for MNC investment that can drive wages, benefits, and worker conditions down\u2014a socalled \u201crace to the bottom.\u201d Needless to say liberals dispute this is many cases, evidence for which is Raymond Vernon\u2019s \u201cobsolescing bargain theory\u201d (discussed in course readings). On balance, however, EPZs among the poorest nations tend to be related to policies of last resort\u2014the notion that \u201cthe only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited\u201d (Susan Strange). This leaves critics (e.g. NGO human rights groups, non-liberal economists, economic nationalists, citizen coalitions\u2026) to wonder whether the social costs of EPZs can outweigh the promised benefits. Just what those benefits are (or whether they exist) is a question best evaluated on a case-by-case basis. What works for China, Indonesia, or Singapore, for example, is not necessarily the same for the Philippines, Guatemala, or Honduras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EPZS are especially common in the following industries: garments\/textiles, electronics, footwear\/sporting apparel, toys, and pharmaceuticals.\u00a0 Critics of these enclaves claim that the \u201ctrickle down\u201d benefits touted by liberals are arrested or irrelevant in zones of exploitation. This is alleged because of a state-to-state competition for MNC investment that can drive wages, benefits, and worker conditions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/a12012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}