標題: Under the shadow of Asian Brown Clouds: Unbalanced regional productivities in China and environmental concerns
作者: Hu, JL
Sheu, HJ
Lo, SF
管理科學系
經營管理研究所
資訊管理與財務金融系 註:原資管所+財金所
Department of Management Science
Institute of Business and Management
Department of Information Management and Finance
關鍵字: data envelopment analysis (DEA);Malmquist productivity index;environment;sustainable development
公開日期: 1-Dec-2005
摘要: China has seen rapid economic growth over the past two decades, but severe environmental problems have accompanied this, such as the looming danger of Asian Brown Clouds. This paper analyzes the regional development of China by examining economic performance and environmental factors. Technical efficiency and productivity changes in 31 regions of China are computed for the period 1997-2001. In the case of regional GDP, the fast-developing eastern (coastal) regions experience higher technical efficiency and productivity growth than the inland central and western regions. When environmental factors are incorporated, the eastern regions still perform better than inland regions, both from static and dynamic analysis. This phenomenon is termed the 'double deterioration' of the inland areas in China. Double deterioration is attributed to the lack of economic resources to replace highly-polluting production equipment and technology in those less developed regions.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/13025
ISSN: 1350-4509
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
Volume: 12
Issue: 4
起始頁: 429
結束頁: 442
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