Local Government Competition and Regional Green Development in China: The Mediating Role of Environmental Regulation
| Autor: | Na Zhang, Fayyaz Ahmad, Muhammad Umar Draz, Jinqian Deng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Mainland China
China Conservation of Natural Resources 020209 energy Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis lcsh:Medicine Green development Efficiency 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Article Competition (economics) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Data envelopment analysis 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Sustainable development Driving factors SBM-DEA Local Government Technological change green development efficiency lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sustainable Development Environmental Policy local government competition environmental regulation Local government Economic Development Business Economic system |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 10 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 3485, p 3485 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17103485 |
| Popis: | Green development is an important way to meet the challenges of ecological and environmental protection and economic growth, as well as an inevitable choice to realize China&rsquo s sustainable development in the new era. The Chinese economic system is such that local government competition has become a key factor affecting regional green development under the current leadership. Based on the inter-provincial panel data of 30 provinces in mainland China from 1997 to 2017, this paper uses the total-factor non-radial directional distance function and slack-based measure data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) to measure the green development efficiency of the provinces. Additionally, it also uses the Malmquist&ndash Luenberger (ML) index to decompose green development efficiency and analyzes its internal driving factors. Finally, taking environmental regulation as a mediating variable, this paper empirically analyzes the influence mechanism of local government competition on green development efficiency from three perspectives including growth competition, fiscal competition and investment competition. The study found that: the green development efficiency of Chinese regions showed a downward trend, with significant regional differences technological progress is the key factor to improve the efficiency of green development, and its role gradually decreases from eastern to western and central regions pure technical efficiency has become a bottleneck restricting the improvement of green development efficiency, while scale efficiency shows significant regional differences the growth competition, fiscal competition and investment competition of local government all have a significant inhibitory effect on the efficiency of green development. This paper puts forward policy suggestions supporting enterprise technology research and development, optimizing energy conservation and emission reduction as well as improving the local government performance evaluation system for green development. |
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