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Breaking the Center-Periphery Trap? Return Migration Entrepreneurship and Intra-County Spatial Restructuring in China

2026-07-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Krugman’s (1991) seminal core-periphery model predicts that economic growth is inherently spatially uneven. Agglomeration economies generate a self-reinforcing cycle of concentration, creating a persistent core-periphery structure that locks peripheral regions into relative backwardness. A central debate in regional science is whether policy interventions can break this core-periphery t...

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Literature Corpus work: 1d4cfb94-a885-589f-8b9c-33085c7cdb15
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10002652/v1

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