International Economic Integration and Environmental Protection: The Case of China

Zeng, Ka; Eastin, J.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00485.x

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“…While there are also some research findings implying that environmental pollution and GDP growth positively affect each other. (Zeng and Eastin 2007;Greiner 2011), some other researches aimed to verify the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. (Roca et al 2001;Roca and Serrano 2007;Song et al 2008;He 2009;Govindaraju and Tang 2013;Ozcan 2013).…”

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Exploring the impact of environmental regulation on economic growth, energy use, and CO2 emissions nexus in China

Zhang

2016

Nat Hazards

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This research integrates environmental regulation into the classic nexus analysis of economic growth-energy use-CO 2 emissions and explores the interaction relationships of them by using China's time series data from 1978 to 2014. By establishing a VAR model, this paper examines the multivariate causal relationships direction in short and long term and to what extent they affect each other. A series of econometric tools are employed to build a systematic analytical framework, including cointegration test, vector error correction, impulse response function, and variance decomposition. The empirical test results show the existence of bidirectional impacts among the four variables. The findings indicate that energy use boosts economic growth; meanwhile, CO 2 emissions positively relate to economic slowdown in China in recent years. Cointegration test indicates the existence of four long-term equilibrium relationships among the variables. VECM model reveals that energy use has a reverse adjusting power of 11.68 % working on shifting shortterm deviation back to long-term equilibrium. Impulse response function demonstrates that environmental regulation benefits economic growth only in the long run and facilitates improving energy efficiency, and the current implementation of regulation on CO 2 emissions is inconsistent. Variance decomposition shows that environmental regulation impacts energy use more greatly than economic growth. The final part concludes the new findings of the paper and proposes suggestions for China's sustainable development.

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Exploring the impact of environmental regulation on economic growth, energy use, and CO2 emissions nexus in China

Zhang

2016

Nat Hazards

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“…Finally, the fact that the foreign joint ventures have the best environmental performance provides no evidence for the "pollution havens" hypothesis, i.e., pollution-intensive multinational corporations (MNCs) from developed countries tend to be reallocated to developing countries with lax environmental standards (e.g., Bao et al 2010;Copeland and Taylor 2004;Xing and Kolstad 2002;Zeng and Eastin 2007). This is in line with most empirical studies to date that find no significant evidence to support the pollution haven hypothesis (e.g., Dasgupta et al 2000;Kirkpatrick and Shimamoto 2008).…”

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Chinese Environmental Governance

Ren¹,

Shou²

2013

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“…Focusing on India provides a hard test of the hypothesis. Antweiler, Copeland, & Taylor, 2001;Birdsall & Wheeler, 1993;Eskeland & Harrison, 2003;Zeng & Eastin, 2007;Zhang & Zhou, 2016; summary by Cole, Elliott, & Zhang, 2017). If we find evidence that FDI is associated with slower rates of potable water access in India, this suggests the importance of the FDI-water channel in 1 Results are mixed in the few studies that focus on the impacts of FDI on poverty head count measures.…”

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FDI, Poverty, and the Politics of Potable Water Access

Rudra

Alkon

Joshi

2018

Economics & Politics

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How does foreign direct investment (FDI) affect the wellbeing of the poor? We address this question by analyzing the impacts of FDI on access to potable water. We predict that higher levels of greenfield FDI in water-intensive sectors slow the rate of access to potable water in developing countries, with these adverse effects conditional on subnational politics. We hypothesize that this is more likely to occur in polities marked by relatively large poor and marginalized populations, where regulatory capture is more likely to occur. To test our intuition, we analyze subnational data on greenfield FDI in India, confirming that multinational investment in "thirsty" manufacturing sectors are negatively associated with improvements in potable water access. We then present a controlled comparison case study of two Indian states, Kerala and Rajasthan, highlighting the political mechanisms conditioning FDI's effects on potable water. K E Y W O R D Sdistributive effects, environment, foreign direct investment, globalization, India, inequality, integration, international political economy, Kerala, natural resources, poor, potable water, Rajasthan, regulatory capture | 367 countries where FDI is a larger percentage of GDP. Next, we present a paired case study, drawing on field interviews, as well as primary and secondary source documents, that highlights the mechanisms underlying the effects of FDI on potable water. While none of these sources themselves establish causal effects, the combined evidence points toward a new, important empirical regularity that merits further scholarly inquiry.Our major finding is that alongside local demographic and economic factors, a greater number of greenfield FDI projects-particularly in the manufacturing sector-is associated with slower progression of potable water provision. We find that Indian states which attract higher levels of FDI subsequently experience slower increases in potable water provision. But this effect only holds in states with relatively large populations of the poor, where regulatory capture by industrial lobbies is most likely to occur and the poor's demands for reforms in response to FDI's effects on water go unheeded. Our case studies from two states, Kerala and Rajasthan, trace these mechanisms in greater detail, and provide further support for our hypothesis.This research makes three contributions. First, we consider how MNC "inputs" and "outputs" have environmental-cum-societal costs, which are concentrated among the poor. Second, we posit circumstances under which citizens of developing economies may be able to resist regulatory capture of MNCs, preserving the poor's access to fundamental resources in the process. Third, we contribute to a growing literature that analyzes how domestic political factors condition the impacts of international markets.

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International Economic Integration and Environmental Protection: The Case of China

Cited by 82 publications

References 53 publications

Exploring the impact of environmental regulation on economic growth, energy use, and CO2 emissions nexus in China

Exploring the impact of environmental regulation on economic growth, energy use, and CO2 emissions nexus in China

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FDI, Poverty, and the Politics of Potable Water Access

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