Does Foreign Direct Investment Improve Inclusive Green Growth? Empirical Evidence from China

Zhu, Song‐Ping; A-zhong, YE

doi:10.3390/economies6030044

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“…Although previous studies have usually decomposed TFP changes into technical changes and efficiency changes based on their measurement principles. But similar to Jing and Zhang [6], Zhu and Ye [37], this paper argues that technological progress should still be measured by the sum of technological change and efficiency change.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Labor input is expressed by the sum of the end employment figures in various industries. Capital investment is obtained according to the calculation method of Zhu and Ye [37]. Energy input is expressed in terms of total energy consumption in each province.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the whole, the progress of green technology in China shows a rising trend over time. The main reason is that the public and the government pay more and more attention to the quality of life and growth with the improvement of people's living standards and the continuous development of economic aggregate [37]. The Chinese government's supervision and protection of the environment has been greatly improved since 2013.…”

Section: The Comparative Analysis Of China's Gtfp Index Based On Diffmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does the Impact of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Reverse Green Technology Process Differ across Countries?

Zhu

A-zhong

2018

Sustainability

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The reverse technology spillover effect of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) has been widely discussed. In the context of pursuing green growth, a few scholars began to study the impact of OFDI on home country green technological progress or green total factor productivity. However, few of these papers have made a thorough analysis of how OFDI affects the home country’s green technological progress, and have not considered the impact of different types of OFDI on green technological progress. This paper extends the basic analysis framework of technological progress to green technological progress, and discusses for the first time the ways for China to invest in developed and developing countries to achieve green technological progress. Specifically, this paper combines the global Malmquist productivity concept with the directional distance function to construct the global Malmquist Luenberger (GML) index to describe green technological progress of China’s provinces, and uses panel data model from 2003 to 2016 to study the impact of China’s investment in different types of countries. The results show that: (1) China’s investment in developed countries can bring reverse green technology spillovers and promote China’s green technology progress. But this is also affected by China’s domestic human capital stock, the increase in human capital stock is conducive to the absorption of green technology. (2) OFDI flows to transition or developing countries have failed to bring about green technological progress, but domestic R&D capital stock can produce a control response. (3) Environmental regulation, import trade and domestic R&D capital stock can bring positive effects on green technology progress, while foreign direct investment, fiscal decentralization and economic growth hinder green technology progress. (4) There is regional heterogeneity in the impact of OFDI with different directions on green technological progress. Because of environmental regulation and economic development, the eastern region of China is easier to obtain reverse green technology progress than the central and western regions in the process of OFDI.

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Does the Impact of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Reverse Green Technology Process Differ across Countries?

Zhu

A-zhong

2018

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“…Japan and Korea are the two most famous cases for this correlation as the FDI promoted GDP and capital accumulation from 1968 to 1997 [2]. More importantly, FDI not only promotes international trading, but also facilitates capital flow [3], and some might even argue that FDI helps improve inclusive development [4].…”

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Foreign Trade, FDI and the Upgrading of Regional Industrial Structure in China: Based on Spatial Econometric Model

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The upgrading of industrial structure is the core means of coordinating economic development and environment protection. Its spatial agglomeration can also reduce environmental pollution partly. The upgrading of China’s industrial structure has become an important issue concerned by the whole society. To better understand this issue, based on the provincial data of China (1997–2017), this paper strives to explore the spatial effects of foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the upgrading of China’s regional industrial structure by constructing the weight matrix of economic distance, and by introducing the spatial autocorrelation analysis method and spatial panel econometric model. The results show that: 1. The Moran’s I index of China’s import, export, FDI, and industrial structure upgrading has passed the 5% significance level test, displaying remarkable spatial agglomeration characteristics. 2. Foreign trade and FDI are important driving factors to upgrade China’s industrial structure. 3. Foreign trade has a significant spatial spillover effect. Imports and exports can not only promote the upgrading of local industrial structure, but also radiate to other regions, promote or inhibit the development of its industry, and further affect the national data. 4. The spatial spillover effect of FDI is not significant. Finally, some policy suggestions are put forward.

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“…The term “inclusive green growth (IGG)” was first put forward at the Rio + 20 summit in 2012 (Zhu and Ye 2018 ; Chen et al 2020a ). It is a continuation and extension of the concept of sustainable development (Sun et al 2020 ), emphasizing the symbiosis of inclusive, green, and growth subsystems.…”

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The dynamic coupling nexus among inclusive green growth: a case study in Anhui province, China

Cao

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Inclusive green growth (IGG) offers an effective alternative to pursue sustainable development. The core of the IGG system lies in the coordination of inclusive, green, and growth subsystems. However, there is little quantitative assessment on IGG based on subsystem collaboration. This study proposes a holistic scheme of inclusive-green-growth nexus in Anhui province from 2009 to 2018 by using an integrated approach, namely, the entropy weight approach (EWA), coupling coordination degree model (CCDM), grey prediction model (GPM), and obstacle factor diagnostic model (OFDM). The results show that: (1) The proposed integrated approach could be viable to measure the synergistic interactions among internal IGG subsystems; (2) At the provincial level, a relatively high IGG performance but a low coupling coordination degree (CCD) of the IGG nexus are seen. Although the predicted value of CCD will show an upward trend, it will not be able to cross the start stage. The obstacle factors on the coordinated development of IGG can be divided into two stages: (3) At the prefectural level, the cities in which CCD is rising outnumber those it is falling. However, the CCD is also low, and the gap between cities is getting wider. The obstacles that affect the CCD of cities see a dynamic evolution trend from “inclusive obstacle type” to “inclusive and growth obstacle type” then to “green obstacle type” over the decade.

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Improve Inclusive Green Growth? Empirical Evidence from China

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Does the Impact of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Reverse Green Technology Process Differ across Countries?

Does the Impact of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Reverse Green Technology Process Differ across Countries?

Foreign Trade, FDI and the Upgrading of Regional Industrial Structure in China: Based on Spatial Econometric Model

The dynamic coupling nexus among inclusive green growth: a case study in Anhui province, China

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