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Do Administrative Boundaries Matter for Uneven Economic Development? A Case Study of China's Provincial Border Counties

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  • Xuebo Zhang
  • Cansong Li
  • Wei Li
  • Jinping Song
  • Chengfeng Yang

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This paper uses China's provincial border counties as samples to explore the role played by administrative boundaries in uneven regional economic development. The results indicate that the gap between provincial border counties and other regions is increasing and that economic diffusion to provincial border counties from developed regions is extremely weak. Moreover, provincial border counties have become economically backward. A regression analysis model that includes certain novel factors that are likely to influence economic growth confirms the significant effects of government intervention and administrative boundaries on economic growth in provincial border counties. This paper concludes that administrative boundaries' effects should be nullified by limiting preferential development policies and implementing policies that instead help provincial border counties engage in sustainable development.

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  • Xuebo Zhang & Cansong Li & Wei Li & Jinping Song & Chengfeng Yang, 2017. "Do Administrative Boundaries Matter for Uneven Economic Development? A Case Study of China's Provincial Border Counties," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(4), pages 883-908, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:48:y:2017:i:4:p:883-908
    DOI: 10.1111/grow.12196
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    1. D. A. Izotov, 2021. "Trade Barriers Between Chinese Regions and Russia," Regional Research of Russia, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 230-243, April.
    2. Junping Yang & Mengjie Zhang, 2021. "The value of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem: Evidence from 265 cities in China," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 2256-2271, December.
    3. Venera Timiryanova & Dina Krasnoselskaya & Irina Lakman & Denis Popov, 2021. "Inter- and Intra-Regional Disparities in Russia: Factors of Uneven Economic Growth," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-31, December.
    4. Wang, Zheng-Xin & Tang, Bao-Xing & Yan, Xiang-Wu, 2024. "The impact of administrative boundaries on foreign direct investments in China's Yangtze River Delta region," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    5. Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Izotov, 2020. "Trade Interaction between Chinese Regions and Russia: The Border Effect," Spatial Economics=Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika, Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk, Russia), issue 3, pages 24-51.

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