Kuznets curve and environmental performance: evidence from China

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The paper investigates China’s environmental performance-economic development relationship for the time period of 1965-2009. The results indicate that after 1990 China increased its environmental performance mainly driven by the implementation of several environmental policies. In addition when we taking into account several factors contributed to China’s economic growth, the empirical evidences suggest the existence of an inverted “U” shape relationship between China’s environmental performance and economic development. However, when only the influence of the industrial sector is taken into account the shape of the established relationship changes from an inverted “U” to “N” shape, indicating that the main determinant of China’s environmental inefficiencies over the years was the heavily industrialization.

Keywords: Environmental performance; Environmental Kuznets Curve; China; Economic Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C14 O10 P28 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10
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