The club convergence of green productivity across African countries

Shen, Zhiyang; Shao, Anwen; Chen, Jiayi; Cai, Jinyang

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-15790-6

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“…However, what is lacking is an in-depth exploration of convergence among regions regarding a specific farming species due to the variations in time and the regions studied. Shen et al (2022) discussed the convergence of green production efficiency in Africa, revealing different types of Club convergence. Zhuang et al (2022) explored the efficiency of agricultural green development in East and West China and found strong convergence, particularly in the East.…”

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Regional differences and convergence of green total factor productivity in pig breeding: evidence from China

Wang,

Chang,

Kong

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Achieving green, healthy, and cyclical development in China’s pig industry not only enables the adjustment of the rural industrial structure but also helps meet community demand for safe meat, thus playing a critical role in promoting sustainable agricultural development. This research utilizes panel data from 21 provinces (districts) in China from 2004 to 2021 to construct an evaluation system for green total factor productivity in pig breeding (PGTFP). The super-efficient slacks-based measure (SBM) model is employed to measure PGTFP. Conversely, regional disparities in PGTFP are determined using the Dagum Gini coefficient method. Furthermore, we analyzed the convergence of pig breeding in different regions. The findings indicate that PGTFP in China exhibits fluctuations, with the highest PGTFP, observed in areas of constrained development. Development differences in PGTFP across China have gradually diminished, with the greatest development differences observed within potential growth areas. Furthermore, disparities between focused development areas and potential growth areas are the most pronounced and are primarily attributable to the super-variable density. Both α- and β-convergence are observed for PGTFP at the national level and within each breeding area. However, the α-convergence pattern during COVID-19 is not obvious. Consequently, the formulation of differentiated farming development strategies and fostering the coordinated development of pig breeding in all regions have become imperative. Meanwhile, preparing contingency prevention measures to promote stable and high-quality pig breeding is necessary.

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Regional differences and convergence of green total factor productivity in pig breeding: evidence from China

Wang,

Chang,

Kong

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Whereas innovation is the engine of economic growth, green innovation not only promotes economic growth but also improves the environment, and thus solves the dilemma of the economy-environment trade-off (Wang et al, 2020;Jing et al, 2021;Shen et al, 2022aShen et al, , 2022bDeng et al, 2022). The adoption of green innovation has been proven to be the key to effective pollution reduction, both in theory and in practice (Song et al, 2021;Pan et al, 2021).…”

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Effect of Economic and Technological Development Zones on Green Innovation

Cheng

Wang

Ouyang

et al. 2022

Journal of Global Information Management

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Green innovation is an effective way of solving the dilemma of the economy–environment trade-off. As an important innovation policy in China, national economic and technological development zones (NETDZs) play a significant role in promoting innovation, but empirical studies on their impact on innovation, especially green innovation, are scarce. In this study, the authors used highly disaggregated micro-level data such as patent data, industrial firm data, and customs data to examine the impact of NETDZs on green innovation. The results showed that: (1) NETDZs significantly promote green innovation, as measured by both patent quantity and patent quality; (2) the binding environmental indicators in China's five-year plan enhance the promotional effect of NETDZs on green innovation; (3) learning by importing, including through foreign direct investment and importing capital goods, is an important mechanism for the nexus between NETDZs and green innovation; and (4) compared with non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs), SOEs are relatively passive in terms of engaging in learning by importing.

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Transitions towards green productivity in Africa: Do sovereign debt vulnerability, eco‐entrepreneurship, and institutional quality matter?

Amowine,

Balezentis,

Zhou

et al. 2023

Sustainable Development

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Improving green productivity (GP) is critical for achieving global sustainable green development. Yet, past efficiency studies on the African continent have ignored Africa's GP, estimation, and driving factors. Specifically, the role of sovereign debt vulnerability, environmental entrepreneurship, and institutional quality in ensuring Africa's green productivity development is lacking. Therefore, this study built a meta‐frontier biennial weighted modified data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate green productivity across resource‐intensive and non‐resource‐intensive African countries from 2010 to 2019. Further, the study adopted the global Malmquist‐Luenberger productivity index (GML) to investigate the dynamic changes in African green productivity growth. The results suggest that only a few African countries are efficient, implying more room for improvement for the other countries. The heterogeneity of green productivity across the resource's classification exhibits significant disparity. The technology gap also prevails among the two resource classifications of African countries. The GML index indicates that Africa's green productivity is mainly explained by technical change instead of efficiency change. The bootstrap truncation regression suggests an inverted U‐shaped nexus between growth and green productivity in Africa and resource‐intensive countries (RIC). Green environmental entrepreneurship positively affects green productivity in Africa. On the components of institutional quality, we observed that the rule of law positively influences green productivity in non‐resource‐intensive countries (NRIC) and the whole of Africa. In contrast, political stability, government effectiveness, voice and corruption negatively affected green productivity in NRIC. Also, foreign direct investment (FDI) and sovereign debt vulnerability negatively correlate to green productivity in Africa as a whole and NRIC, respectively. The findings of this study aid in raising awareness of green productivity in developing countries, which is crucial in boosting global green development.

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The club convergence of green productivity across African countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 66 publications

Regional differences and convergence of green total factor productivity in pig breeding: evidence from China

Regional differences and convergence of green total factor productivity in pig breeding: evidence from China

Effect of Economic and Technological Development Zones on Green Innovation

Transitions towards green productivity in Africa: Do sovereign debt vulnerability, eco‐entrepreneurship, and institutional quality matter?

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