La transition énergétique de la Chine est-elle soutenable ? Une analyse centrée sur l’absorption du surplus de travail

Pierre Berthaud and Yann Fontana

Mondes en développement, 2020, vol. n° 191, issue 3, 31-48

Abstract: China?s energy transition has been taking place since 2010, alongside an economic transition. The links between these two processes are studied here, using a Lewisian framework of structural change. China?s development model up until 2010 caused significant environmental damage, but it also created an economic context that would eventually favor the first steps of its ambitious energy transition, by absorbing the rural labor surplus. This absorption is a necessary condition for the success of the energy transition, but it is not enough on its own.

Keywords: China; energy transition; economic transition; structural change; labor surplus; Lewis model; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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