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Special Economic Zones and Exploited Labor

SEZ’s or special economic zones are areas within both developing (poorer) nations and developed nations, where foreign investors are enticed with special regulations that are different from the rest of the host nation. These special regulations include tax incentives and lower tariffs. In these zones corporations avoid direct accountability for labor law violations through the use of subcontractors and employee…

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Phillip Michael Garner

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I am a poet, an author, and a philosophical theologian who lives on Mactan Island and travels Asia. My present corpus of work is published by Wipf and Stock.

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