Scepticism clouds provincial SEZs

The model seeks to establish specialised industrial clusters across the country’s 10 provinces based on comparative advantages, covering sectors such as mining beneficiation, agro-processing, logistics, tourism, energy and manufacturing.

ANALYSTS have raised doubts over the government’s newly approved Integrated Provincial Special Economic Zones (IP-SEZs), warning the model could distort competition and repeat shortcomings that undermined previous SEZ programmes. This comes as the cabinet this week approved the framework for the establishment of IP-SEZ under the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency Act with a view…

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