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Abolishing democracy in Russia’s provinces, including Muslim-populated regions such as Tatarstan and Dagestan, is a deadly act.

This has severely degraded the quality of education at second- and third-tier universities concentrated in China’s inner provinces, thus widening the development gap between China’s urban coast and rural hinterland.

And as Chinese manufacturing moves to less accessible provinces, improved infrastructure connections to international markets fits China’s development needs.

So, while loudly proclaiming the unity of the Chinese state, China’s leadership is obsessed with the country’s fragility, and works constantly to reduce tensions between its provinces.

But some provinces have gone further.

In the past, local-level experimentation and innovation have proved integral to China’s progress, with competition among provinces, cities, and firms often helping the country to break out of bureaucratic and structural logjams.

Over the last two years, officials from all China’s provinces – ranging from low-ranking department chiefs in ministries to senior provincial leaders – have been incarcerated.

When the economic slowdown hastened the relocation of many manufacturers to inland provinces or neighboring countries, those in the coastal regions began to call for increased openness, deeper structural reforms, and industrial upgrading.

I encounter these questions everywhere: in Mexico City and the provinces; on radio programs and university campuses; among ordinary people, psychology students, and health professionals.

And, with the Donbas economy’s crown jewels having been “nationalized” (and the rest eviscerated), the region’s emerging industries are crime and kidnapping, of the sort seen in Transnistria, Georgia’s breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and other Kremlin-backed statelets.

Indeed, over the last 30 years, massive public investment and economic liberalization spurred rapid urban growth in coastal provinces.

Indeed, trade overshadows aid, and China – led by its border provinces – is now North Korea’s main trading partner and source of foreign investment.

But in the Kurdish-controlled areas of the north and Shiite-dominated provinces in the south, levels of crime and deadly violence compare favorably with those in many cities in the United States.

Unfortunately, the sudden devolution of health responsibilities to the country’s provinces occurred without adequate preparation or oversight.

In Vietnam’s parched central highlands and coastal provinces, for example, there is an urgent need to harvest “more crop per drop” and improve emergency responses.

After Russia sent troops into Georgia in August 2008, it recognized the independence of two breakaway Georgian provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

In addition, the Kurds will expect to retain a veto over any proposal that might compromise Kurdish autonomy in the northern provinces.

But, for the most part, the candidates have steered clear of speaking Chinese or discussing troubled Pakistani provinces.

Yet despite the scandal, migrant workers and children in school uniforms are still being abducted from other provinces and pushed into monstrous brick plants and coalmines.

That is much higher than the global average of around 22%; yet it is also significantly lower than the average of the figures provided by China’s provinces.

In 2012, for example, nearly half of the provinces reported GDP shares for capital formation of more than 60%; six exceeded 80%.

The system makes relocating very difficult, as those who do not manage to acquire local residency permits face major hurdles in gaining access to public services when they migrate to other provinces.

For their part, the Pashtuns, despite their tribal divisions, will not be content with control of a rump Afghanistan consisting of its current eastern and southeastern provinces.

All the students, in Paris and in the provinces – there are over a million at the time – feel insulted.

With revenues plummeting and credit cut off, the Argentine provinces had to resort to printing scrip to pay salaries and pensions.

The situation is no less precarious in the southern provinces, where a secession movement has been active since 2007.

Indeed, with Shia Arabs and Kurds making up 80% of the country, the insurgency is focused on only four of Iraq’s 18 provinces.

The Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces have been particularly successful in this effort – and, unsurprisingly, rank among China’s most robust regional economies.

The changes are supposed to make the executive branch accountable to the elected parliament, expand the prime minister’s authority, devolve more power to the provinces, and ensure independence to the judiciary.

In late 2009, the president also approved the seventh National Finance Commission, which will allocate to the provinces a larger share of the revenues collected by the central government.

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