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Developing Countries and Global Trade

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Mar 01, 2013
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Roughly three decades ago, at Bayan Lepas on the southern end of Penang Island in Malaysia, a series of tilt-up warehouse style buildings began to rise out of the former rice paddies and mangrove swamps of what was then Kampung Jawa.

In those first buildings that made up the nascent Penang Free Trade Zone, everything that was manufactured there was haul…

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