Pollution Across Chinese Provinces

Catherine Co, Fanying Kong and Shuanglin Lin

Development Economics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: We revisit the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces. A comparison of off-sample (1996-2004) predictions to actual emissions indicates that more stringent rules are still needed to fight industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution; and, commitment to control industrial dust pollution is correlated with local governments budget balance.

Keywords: environmental Kuznets curves; Chinese provinces; pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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