Delineation of city-region boundary in Vietnam: The empirical case of ‘Can Tho City-region’

Le Minh Son ()
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Le Minh Son: Vietnam Institute for Development Strategies, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Hanoi, Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE - ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 2023, vol. 13, issue 1, 32-52

Abstract: In recent years, city-regional development has received increasing attention from the media, policymakers as well as the academic spheres but yet ‘city-region’ remains a relatively understudied subject in Vietnamese literature. Contemporary works have appealed to how city-regions are functional economic areas, but the development of Vietnamese city-regions has been rather normative and politically guided. More empirical works are much needed so that city-regional policies are more evidence-backed and, therefore ultimately, more effective. With particular scope into the delineation of city-regional boundary, this paper contributes to that growing body of literature in two ways: (1) to provide an overview of methodology to define boundaries of polarized regions - of which city-region is a special form - and (2) to present an original attempt to empirically delineate city-regional boundary in Vietnam, with ‘Can Tho City-region’ as a case study. The article is both empirical and experimental which, the author hopes, would ignite further interest in this growing field.

Keywords: boundary; Can Tho; city-region; delineation; gravity model; Mekong (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 P25 R11 R12 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.46223/HCMCOUJS.econ.en.13.1.2121.2023

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