Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 12, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su12156291
Keywords
The Silk Road in Central Asia; Western Europe-Western China (WE-WC); international trade; transport corridor; economic corridor; sustainable regional development; economic complexity; regional capability
Funding
- Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan [BR05236340]
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Central Asian countries attract investment in transport infrastructure to rebuild the Silk Road paths and enjoy economic benefits from the participation in international trade. The Kazakhstani government approached the Russian and Chinese governments intending to join the Western Europe-Western China (WE-WC) initiative to boost the country's regional development. The paper aims to assess how the WE-WC transport corridor affected the economic potential of linking cities and regions starting from the quality of transport infrastructure and leading to their export potential. The study's findings showed that the Kazakhstan section of the WE-WC corridor was at an early stage of transformation from a transport into an economic corridor. While the Russia-Uzbekistan section continues to serve mainly a transit function and operate at the level of transport infrastructure, the China-Kyrgyzstan section has started evolving from the level of multimode transport corridor to the level of logistics corridor. The economic sustainability of the WE-WC linking mining and agricultural regions of Kazakhstan still comes into question and depends on the government's further region-specific policy actions.
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