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Strategically, a successful border-regional development plan is a dynamic function of economic growth. Such growth can be achieved in border-regions by various approaches such as the direct investment by central government and the substantial cross-border co-operation, all of which, obviously, are the most fundamental tasks to border-regional economists. In this chapter, two basic approaches (i.e., core-peripheral approach and cross-border approach) for the border-regional development are proposed with an extensive interpretation of the spatial mechanisms and conditions of applications of the two approaches. In addition, three cases are briefly introduced, which are: (i) Mexico’s border industrialization programme (BIP); (ii) China’s frontier development programmes; and (iii) Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
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A history of the border industrialization program (BIP) can be found in M. van Waas (1981): “The Multinationals’ Strategy for Labour: Foreign Assembly Plants in Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program”, unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Standford University (University Microfilms International), pp. 143–191.
H. C. Goddard (1985): “Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program”, in L. J. Gibson and A. C. Renteria (eds.): The U.S. and Mexico: Borderland Development and the National Economies, p. 141, Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.
For more evidence, see J. Grunwald (1985) “Intemationlization of Industry: U.S. —Mexican Linkages”, in L. J. Gibson and A. C. Renteria (eds.): The U.S. and Mexico: Borderland Development and the National Economies, p. 110–1, Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.
See H. C. Goddard.(1985), p. 141.
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Based on The Map of China (1993), Beijing: China Maps Publishing House.
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For more evidence, see I. d’Honghe (1994): “Regional Economic Integration in Yunnan”, in D. S. G. Goodman and G. Gegal (eds.): China Deconstructs: Politics, Trade and Regionalism, p. 307, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
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The main legal documents concerning the establishment and operations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) can be found in NPC (1980): “The Regulations Concerning the Special Economic Zones of Guangdong Province, the People’s Republic of China”, Beijing: National People’s Congress of China, August 26.
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These policies, regulations and laws may by found in Wang Wenxiang (ed.) (1986), Appendix, pp. 177–217.
See Zhongguo Chengshi Jingji Shehui Nanjian (The Almanac of China’s Urban Economy and Society), Beijing: China Social Science Press, 1986.
Source: (1) The Economists (1991): “The South China Miracle”, October 5, pp. 19 and 44; (2) Wang Wenxiang (ed.) (1986), p. 35.
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Guo, R. (1996). Border-Regional Development. In: Border-Regional Economics. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11268-7_7
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