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No.630 China-Kyrgyzstan railway meets IDE-GSM
by Satoru KUMAGAI, Ikumo ISONO, Souknilanh KEOLA, Kazunobu HAYAKAWA, Toshitaka GOKAN, and Kenmei TSUBOTA
February 2017
ABSTRACT
The impact of connecting Kashgar, Trougart, Uzgen, and Karasuu and facilitating customs at the national border between China and Kyrgyzstan are examined by using IDE-GSM (Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO Geographical Simulation Model). We found that the railway connection has a positive impact in southern Kyrgyzstan and a negative impact in regions of northern Kyrgyzstan, neither of which are the capital city of Kyrgyzstan.
Keywords: economic geography, China, Kyrgyzstan
JEL classification: R12, R13, R42
PDF available at http://hdl.handle.net/2344/1606
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