101 East – India’s Special Economic Zones Part 1

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Some 250 Special Economic Zones or SEZs have been approved to promote trade, manufacturing and attract foreign investment.

But the SEZs have also been blamed for robbing rural communities of land and livelihoods and creating uneven economic progress.

On this edition of 101 East, we ask – are India’s SEZ’s a boom or a bust?

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