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Highways and industrial development in the peripheral regions of China

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  • Hangtian Xu & Kentaro Nakajima, 2017. "Highways and industrial development in the peripheral regions of China," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 96(2), pages 325-356, June.
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