Zones franches dans les économies en voie de développement : quelle industrialisation ?

[eng] Free zones, as they have benne spreading in the Third World since the mid-1960's, intend to attract foreign direct investment in order to develop manufactured exports. They are the limit of outward-looking policies.. Basing on different samples, this paper examines striking economic characteristics of these areas : concentration of activity on few products, instability of earnings, limited technology transfer. We conclued that zones failed to generate an industrial structure independent of host country development level. [fre] Free zones, as they have benne spreading in the Third World since the mid-1960's, intend to attract foreign direct investment in order to develop manufactured exports. They are the limit of outward-looking policies.. Basing on different samples, this paper examines striking economic characteristics of these areas : concentration of activity on few products, instability of earnings, limited technology transfer. We conclued that zones failed to generate an industrial structure independent of host country development level.