glyph 641: Opportunity Zones, special jurisdictions, export processing zones, special economic zones (SEZs), free zones, city states ... 174 countries, including: Mexico, China, Honduras, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, Jordan, Israel, Vietnam, Russia, Albania, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Bangladesh, Philippines, and even the small nations of Vanuatu, Timor Leste, and Liberia ... World Bank, IMF, USAID. ILO, UNIDO, OECD, other aid agencies, and more recently the WTO ... Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) in Jordan and Egypt (a peace dividend, commercial diplomacy) ... Honduras: ZEDEs

Max Borders, in his Underthrow substack, writes: "Bob Haywood, the "policy entrepreneur" of Opportunity Zones, arguably, has done more than anyone alive to lift people out of poverty." An impressive claim backed by strong evidence, as shown in this interview. Bob, to his credit, suggests that he deserves only a portion of the credit for achievements to which many people contributed. He says, "I have played a small part, typically providing a legal, economic, and political foundation that a country's business and political leaders can embrace."

"In addition to China, I have been fortunate to work with zones in various stages of development. Of the 174 countries I have worked in, more than half the countries and territories of the world were developing new zones or rethinking how to update their zone regulations. During these visits, I have both received an education and dispensed advice. The advice was primarily focused on creating a defensible legal foundation that was politically acceptable and economically sound." —Haywood

I've been studying the above interview of Haywood by Borders, and cannot recommend it more highly to anyone interested in building or extending special zones. I would be reluctant to become involved with any zone that did not work, to some degree, with Bob Haywood. His experience in 174 countries is impossible to replicate. -ls, 29 July 2023

The interview, on Underthrow:

   The Invisible Hand Behind a Hundred City-States
   Protocol Design for Opportunity Zones

In Explorers Foundation's "archive" (as backup):

   explorersfoundation.org/archive/Bob Haywood interviewed by Max Borders - Part 1
   explorersfoundation.org/archive/Bob Haywood interviewed by Max Borders - Part 2

Max Border's Substack: Underthrow
A search for books by Max will produce good results. Max's work is strongly contributory to the emergence of Freeorder.

https://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/641.html
July 29, 2023