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Title of the article Decentralization, Integration and Regionalization: Interrelation and Interdependence
Pages 19-35
Author Alexander Mikhailovich Libman
Candidate of Economics, Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Economics RAS
32 Nakhimovsky Prospect, Moscow, Russia, 117218
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Abstract The type of interrelation and interdependence of the following three aspects of organizing economic spaces is determined: international economic integration, domestic markets integration, and choosing a model of political and administrative decentralization. The conditions have been distinguished under which the involvement of separate regions in the international integration structure promotes integration of the internal space. The alteration of the decentralization model as a result of enhanced involvement in the world economic relations has been analyzed
Code 332.135
DOI 10.14530/se.2008.4.019-035
Keywords Integration ♦ decentralization ♦ regionalization ♦ markets ♦ economic space
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For citation Libman A.M. Decentralization, Integration and Regionalization: Interrelation and Interdependence. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2008, no. 4, pp. 19-35. DOI: 10.14530/se.2008.4.019-035. (In Russian).
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