“…While labour was abundant in rural hinterlands, manufacturing firms could rely on cheap labour as migrant workers would still be better off than if they stayed at home. …”

“…The emphasis has been on aligning inward FDI flows more closely with national priorities, including upgrading industrial sophistication, supporting innovation, setting up outsourcing industries and developing poorer hinterland regions. The most important change is the three-fold raising of the ceiling on provincial examination and approval authority over foreign investment projects in the “permitted catalogue”. …”

“…Several articles are then focusing on the agency of hinterland populations in the networks, and the relationships between the regions bordering the Red Sea and central powers that governed them, often from distant lands. …”

“…The Diaries of Georgij Ėfron may be considered a singular historical document, nobody dared to put down in writing freely and uncensured unorthodox thoughts and commentaries about the deplorable and miserable condition of the Soviet society and the hardship of a life as an evacuee in the hinterlands. His notes are of an astonishing high literary quality as well. …”

“…Special attention was given to functional urban areas (FUA), a functional economic unit characterised by densely inhabited “urban cores” and “hinterlands” whose labour market is highly integrated with the cores. …”

“…Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. …”

“…It was their fate to play the role of an intermediary between a rich hinterland and the wider Mediterranean. The second century B.C. was one of their most splendid periods. …”

“…Ces espaces de passage sont également nécessaires à la défense, à la vie administrative dans le cadre d’une banlieue, à l’économie dans un hinterland, l’équivalent du contado des villes italiennes. …”