Syracuse contains New York State's oldest economic development zone, established in 1987 and now covering about 12% of the city's 26 square miles, designed to attract investment in real estate and businesses with a myriad of financial incentives.

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Nearly ten years after its launch, the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone is still a mostly desolate expanse on the edge of the city.

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Vladimir Arkhipov, the Russian foreign-trade ministry's representative in Primorsky Krai's free economic zone of Nakhodka wonders why Russians should tend to anything but their own development problems, such as those at Vostochny port.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warns of a "severe recession" in the zone.

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Reiterating their claims to reserves located in the exclusive economic zone, the Cypriot government dismissed the warnings from Ankara, stating that they would continue to pursue development agreements, according to a Platts report.

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