Abstract

Economic structure transformation is widely recognized as a crucial role in sustainable development. However, the existing literature almost focused on the change inside certain economic areas and ignored the external relationship. This raises the question about the role of factors outside in economic structure transformation at the prefecture-level. This paper takes Vietnam as the study area to fill this gap and examines the impact of metropolis’s characteristics on the provinces’ economic structural transformation. Using data of provincial economic structure from 2015 to 2018 collected from the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, the econometric analysis with instrument variables for panel data is performed. The results show that metropolises play an important role in the economic structure change of provinces through certain roles: destination of migration and start-point of remittances, the market for goods and services, hubs of information and knowledge.

摘要

经济结构转型被广泛认为是可持续发展的关键作用。然而，现有文献几乎都关注某些经济领域内部的变化，而忽略了外部关系。这就提出了外部因素在地级经济结构转型中的作用问题。本文以越南为研究区域，以填补这一空白，考察大都市特征对各省经济结构转型的影响。利用越南统计总局2015-2018年省级经济结构数据，对面板数据进行计量分析。结果表明，大都市通过某些作用在省份经济结构变化中发挥着重要作用：