Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Kuzbass Economic Diversification: The Concept of Development Corridors

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (9)
Authors
Fridman, Yuri A.; Loginova, Ekaterina Yu.; Rechko, Galina N.; Khokhrina, Olesya I.
Contact information
Fridman, Yuri A.: Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-3120-7197; Loginova, Ekaterina Yu.: Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000-0002-2743-3653; Rechko, Galina N.: Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000-0001-7423-4051; Khokhrina, Olesya I.: Kemerovo State University Kemerovo, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000-0002-0288-1302
Keywords
Kuzbass; development strategy; diversification; regional policy; urban agglomerations; South Siberian conurbation; Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China; development corridors
Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of the economic diversification processes in Kuzbass (Kemerovo Oblast), the largest coal-producing territory in Asian Russia, while analyzing the current stage of the region’s spatial development. Specifically, diversification is considered from the perspective of the approaches developed within contemporary economic geography and regional economics in the theory of development corridors. The author offers an interpretation of development corridors as those that intensify the processes of diversification by stimulating various types of economic cooperation, which include inter-municipal, interregional, and international. It is shown that the double-core agglomeration that has emerged in Kuzbass does not contribute to the creation of new intraregional development corridors. Priority should be given to the organization of development corridors within the South Siberian conurbation. In addition, Kemerovo Oblast is advised to promote the idea of creating its own international development corridors. Thus, development corridors may become an important complement to the already existing and established institutions of territorial development in Kuzbass

Pages
1576–1583
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GZDGXW
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/151695

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