The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping Economic Geography in Central Asia?

Bird, Julia; Lebrand, Mathilde; Venables, Anthony J.

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“…There is an array of studies that address economic and trade linkages between Central Asia and China, but the majority of them pay inadequate attention to agricultural trade. Bird et al [32] and Kokushkina and Soloshcheva [33] assessed the participation of Central Asian countries in the BRI based on the revealed comparative advantage and other indicators with a major focus on trade in resources and raw materials. Vakulchuk and Overland [34] analyzed the present state of relations between the countries of Central Asia and China and systematized the BRI's perceptions on the part of various stakeholders, including local rural communities and farmers, and found that many value chain actors remained weakly connected to Central Asia-China value chains.…”

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Sustainability-Related Implications of Competitive Advantages in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Central Asia—China Trade and Investment

Erokhin

2020

Sustainability

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More stable value chains in agriculture allow countries to take the best advantage of their factor endowments and thus achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal on ending hunger. It is, however, difficult to interpret such advantages properly due to the multivariate effects of natural, technological, and economic variables on agricultural output and food supply. The authors attempt to tackle this challenge by developing the approach to the identification of competitive advantages and matching them with the production capabilities of agricultural sectors in Central Asia. The application of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Relative Trade Advantage (RTA), Lafay Competitive Advantage (LI), and Domestic Resource Costs (DRC) indexes to the array of 37 products results in the revealing of comparative, trade, competitive, and production advantages of five Central Asian economies for labor-intensive horticultural products and grains. Capital and technology-intensive sectors of animal husbandry and food processing are recognized as low competitive. Taking Central Asia–China collaboration as a model, the authors elaborate policy measures aimed at support, promotion, or establishment of competitive advantages. The application of the measures facilitates the concentration of the resources toward competitive and conditionally competitive products, allows to protect fragile advantages in marginally competitive sectors, and contributes to the overall improvement of stakeholders’ performance across agricultural value chains in the region.

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Sustainability-Related Implications of Competitive Advantages in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Central Asia—China Trade and Investment

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2020

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“…Districts' strength in agriculture becomes an even stronger predictor of welfare effects in the presence of complementary border reforms. Yet consistent with Bird et al (2019), districts with a comparative advantage in agriculture that benefit from lower transport costs will end up with a higher proportion of workers in non-tradable activities that support agricultural activities. Lowering of transport and trade costs therefore support urbanization and non-agricultural employment that complement and support export sector development.…”

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Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative

Lall¹,

Lebrand²

2020

Journal of Development Economics

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…Shaping subnational region adjustments are the magnitude of improved market 13 The analysis combines insights from research in new economic geography, a policy framework developed in the World Bank's World Development Report Reshaping Economic Geography (World Bank 2009) and lessons from two recent papers. The first (Bird, Lebrand, and Venables 2019) considers shifts in economic geography across many countries together, all of which are divided into subnational units (cities or regions). The second (Lall and Lebrand 2019) examines economic geography in each country, where internal geography responds to external integration and domestic transport investments.…”

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Belt and Road Economics: Opportunities and Risks of Transport Corridors

Ruta¹,

Dappe²,

Lall³

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The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping Economic Geography in Central Asia?

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Sustainability-Related Implications of Competitive Advantages in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Central Asia—China Trade and Investment

Sustainability-Related Implications of Competitive Advantages in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Central Asia—China Trade and Investment

Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative

Belt and Road Economics: Opportunities and Risks of Transport Corridors

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