Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data
In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and decrease...
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okr-10986-35172017-12-13T13:02:58Z Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data He, Jie Wang, Hua ABATEMENT TECHNOLOGIES AIR POLLUTANTS AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS AIR QUALITY ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION CAPITAL STOCK CARBON CARBON DIOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES COMPETITIVENESS DATA AVAILABILITY DEFORESTATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DOMESTIC MARKET DOMESTIC MARKETS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATISTICS ECONOMIC STRUCTURE ECONOMIC STRUCTURES ECONOMICS ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL STUDIES ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE EXPORTS FOREIGN CAPITAL FOREIGN CAPITALS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN INVESTORS FOREIGN TRADE FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL POLICY GLOBALIZATION GROWTH RATE INCOME INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL TRADE LABOR FORCES MARGINAL UTILITY NITROGEN OXIDE OIL OPEN ECONOMY OUTPUT PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLLUTION POLLUTION ABATEMENT POLLUTION CONCENTRATION POLLUTION CONTROL POLLUTION LEVEL POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION LEVY POLLUTION REDUCTION POOR AREAS POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH PROGRESS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION RESEARCH EFFORTS RESPECT SCALE EFFECT SIGNIFICANT POLICY SULFUR DIOXIDE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION URBANIZATION In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and decreases after a certain level of income. However, what determine the shape of an enviornmental Kuznets curve, such as the height and the turning point of the curve, have not been thoroughly studied. A good understanding of the determinants is vitally important to the development community, especially for the developing world, where income growth is a high priority and yet environmental pollution also needs to be carefully controlled. This study analyzes the impacts of economic structure, development strategy and environmental regulation on the shape of the environmental Kuznets curve with a city-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results show that economic structure, development strategy and environmental regulation can all have important implications on the relationship between environmental environmental quality and economic development but the impacts can be different at different development stages. 2012-03-19T18:03:53Z 2012-03-19T18:03:53Z 2011-08-01 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3517 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5756 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific East Asia and Pacific East Asia Asia China |
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ABATEMENT TECHNOLOGIES AIR POLLUTANTS AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS AIR QUALITY ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION CAPITAL STOCK CARBON CARBON DIOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES COMPETITIVENESS DATA AVAILABILITY DEFORESTATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DOMESTIC MARKET DOMESTIC MARKETS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATISTICS ECONOMIC STRUCTURE ECONOMIC STRUCTURES ECONOMICS ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL STUDIES ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE EXPORTS FOREIGN CAPITAL FOREIGN CAPITALS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN INVESTORS FOREIGN TRADE FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL POLICY GLOBALIZATION GROWTH RATE INCOME INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL TRADE LABOR FORCES MARGINAL UTILITY NITROGEN OXIDE OIL OPEN ECONOMY OUTPUT PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLLUTION POLLUTION ABATEMENT POLLUTION CONCENTRATION POLLUTION CONTROL POLLUTION LEVEL POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION LEVY POLLUTION REDUCTION POOR AREAS POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH PROGRESS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION RESEARCH EFFORTS RESPECT SCALE EFFECT SIGNIFICANT POLICY SULFUR DIOXIDE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION URBANIZATION |
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ABATEMENT TECHNOLOGIES AIR POLLUTANTS AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS AIR QUALITY ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION CAPITAL STOCK CARBON CARBON DIOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES COMPETITIVENESS DATA AVAILABILITY DEFORESTATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DOMESTIC MARKET DOMESTIC MARKETS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATISTICS ECONOMIC STRUCTURE ECONOMIC STRUCTURES ECONOMICS ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL STUDIES ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS EQUILIBRIUM EXCHANGE RATE EXPORTS FOREIGN CAPITAL FOREIGN CAPITALS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN INVESTORS FOREIGN TRADE FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL POLICY GLOBALIZATION GROWTH RATE INCOME INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL TRADE LABOR FORCES MARGINAL UTILITY NITROGEN OXIDE OIL OPEN ECONOMY OUTPUT PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLLUTION POLLUTION ABATEMENT POLLUTION CONCENTRATION POLLUTION CONTROL POLLUTION LEVEL POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION LEVY POLLUTION REDUCTION POOR AREAS POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH PROGRESS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION RESEARCH EFFORTS RESPECT SCALE EFFECT SIGNIFICANT POLICY SULFUR DIOXIDE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION URBANIZATION He, Jie Wang, Hua Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data |
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In many cases, the relationship between
environmental pollution and economic development can be
generally depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an
environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with
income at the beginning and decreases after a certain level
of income. However, what determine the shape of an
enviornmental Kuznets curve, such as the height and the
turning point of the curve, have not been thoroughly
studied. A good understanding of the determinants is vitally
important to the development community, especially for the
developing world, where income growth is a high priority and
yet environmental pollution also needs to be carefully
controlled. This study analyzes the impacts of economic
structure, development strategy and environmental regulation
on the shape of the environmental Kuznets curve with a
city-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results
show that economic structure, development strategy and
environmental regulation can all have important implications
on the relationship between environmental environmental
quality and economic development but the impacts can be
different at different development stages. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
He, Jie Wang, Hua |
| author_facet |
He, Jie Wang, Hua |
| author_sort |
He, Jie |
| title |
Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality :
An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data |
| title_short |
Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality :
An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data |
| title_full |
Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality :
An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data |
| title_fullStr |
Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality :
An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality :
An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data |
| title_sort |
economic structure, development policy and environmental quality :
an empirical analysis of environmental kuznets curves with chinese municipal data |
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2012 |
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