OECD Territorial Reviews: Trans-border Urban Co-operation in the Pan Yellow Sea Region, 2009
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However, the PYSR has yet not fully utilised its assets nor reached its potential for growth. Further economic integration has been hindered by excessive competition and inadequate co-operation within the region. The regional transportation system requires structural changes to be integrated, especially in the container transportation market. Deepening the region’s social and cultural network remains a challenge. And environmental concerns are increasingly attracting attention. This report analyses these factors and assesses a wide range of policies to improve the PYSR’s competitiveness and integration.
In particular, the report examines the PYSR’s trans-border governance system, which has emerged since the 1990s as a key regional policy agenda. The harmonisation of authorities within the region is a prerequisite to achieving economic success and addressing the PYSR’s diverse challenges. A comparative analysis of trans-border cooperation in OECD countries in Europe and North America is also included in an annex. This report will be of special interest to policy makers, researchers, NGOs and others active in trans-border development or Asian economic development.
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Trans-border institution building
As globalisation blurs national boundaries and blunts the state’s power to lead development strategies, many OECD countries see regions as the core economic actors and have concentrated on enhancing national competitiveness by using regional capacities. The tide of globalisation has forced the state to weaken its grip on the flow of capital, labour and goods across borders, and decreased its traditional role of redistributing national resources to lagging regions. In fact, many OECD member countries are shifting the paradigm of regional development policy from one of subsidising resources to achieve balanced regional development, to the enhancement of local competitiveness and the creation of regional wealth (OECD , 2009). Strategies for achieving this have also changed from conventional sectoral approaches to place-based integrative development strategies. As such, the region has emerged as a leading player in resolving individual countries’ complicated economic and social problems.
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