Location of Economic Geography and Development of the Southern Border Provinces

Abstract

 The purpose of this article is aimed to conduct the SWOT analysis  ( strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) of the economic geographic location of the southern border provinces and to estimate the attributes of the economic geographic location of the southern border provinces. Methodologically, performing estimation by ten industry experts from southern border provinces, establishing a SWOT and estimating the attributes of the economic geographic location of the southern border provinces, primary data regarding the indicators of the material potential, the economic potential of the economic geographic location, complex infrastructure, priority analysis of factors, rating scores from  1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum), and determine the indicators of the weight of the considered direction to estimate the attributes of the economic location,  calculating each indicator for different values ​​with the sum of the ranks and the weight coefficient to consider in the fact the Kendall Rank Correlation Coefficient. The results revealed that the attributes of the economic geographic location of the southern border provinces, the indicators of the material potential,  the economic potential of the economic geographic location, the complex infrastructure have been in a weak direction. In the SWOT analysis of the economic geographic location, it was found that the economic development of the southern border provinces has contributed to the small enterprise development, and meanwhile, weaknesses and factors are hindering the industrial development among the local entrepreneurs, such as inadequate investment in regional financial systems, insufficient development of transport infrastructure, lack of transformation labor resources, lack of scientific databases in the support of the production and commercial activities, poor economic competitiveness, lack of product development and management standards in the line with the foreign countries, etc, thereby consequently that the economic geographic location of the southern border provinces was fallen short of the increase in the profit as expected by the establishment as well as competitive pricing for the products