Transport Infrastructure, Spatial Clusters and Regional Economic Growth in China

Yu, Nannan; Jong, Martin de; Storm, Servaas; Mi, Jianing

doi:10.1080/01441647.2011.603104

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“…This indicates that poverty is no longer an issue in northwest China. These results are not surprising because significant infrastructure construction [22,23] and poverty reduction [24,25] have been achieved in the last 40 years, but at the expense of health risks [26] and environmental degradation [17,21]. …”

Section: Which Environmental and Water Resources Issues Are The Biggementioning

confidence: 84%

The Local Residents’ Concerns about Environmental Issues in Northwest China

Aregay

Zhao

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Sustainability

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This paper analyzes public awareness and perception about current issues of environmental and water resources in China in comparison to the socio-economic issues. The ranking, Likert scale, and ordered logit analysis were applied to data from 1773 sample residents in northwest China. The results show that the residents rank the degradation of the ecological environment and water resources as the most important issue, and education, political involvement, gender, employment, and residential location play significant roles in explaining the observed differences in concern. Of the possible environmental and water resource restoration policies, residents ranked water quantity and quality, agricultural and industrial water use, erosion control, vegetation restoration, wildlife habitat, animal brooding and migration services, biodiversity landscape, and eco-tourism from one to nine in order of importance, respectively. The results are relevant for policymaking and imply that environmental restoration is a high public demand. Welfare gains from investments in it would be higher or equal to gains from other socio-economic and livelihood activities. Thus, public policies must emphasize restoring and maintaining a sustainable ecological environment.

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confidence: 84%

The Local Residents’ Concerns about Environmental Issues in Northwest China

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Zhao

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Sustainability

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“…Hu and Liu [72] explored 28 provinces in China from 1985 to 2006 via a spatial econometric model and found that each 1% increase of the transportation investment in China leads to 0.28% increase on GDP. Yu et al [73] unveiled a one-way Granger causal link between transport investment and economic growth at Chinese national level. Based on a sample of 563 estimates obtained from 33 studies, Melo et al [74] reported that a growth of 10% in public investment in transport infrastructure is related with a rise in output of almost 0.5%.…”

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“…Depending on availability, the data was gathered from Eurostat, OECD, and the World Bank. Gross domestic product per capita was employed as a proxy for sustainable economic growth [2,34,39,43,44,51,58,68,76,85,89,93,95], whereas several measures towards transport infrastructure [2,8,39,42,50,54,58,61,68,93], investment in transport infrastructure [8,43,73,81,82,97], transport pollution [34,50,58,89,95,106], and country-level controls [2,53,58,61,85,93,95,106] were considered, as exhibited in Table 4. Source: Authors' work.…”

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Empirical Evidence from EU-28 Countries on Resilient Transport Infrastructure Systems and Sustainable Economic Growth

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This paper examines the nexus between the main forms of transport, related investments, specific air pollutants, and sustainable economic growth. The research is important since transport may act as a facilitator of social, economic, and environmental development. Based on data retrieved from Eurostat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and World Bank, the output of fixed-effects regressions for EU-28 countries over 1990-2016 reveals that road, inland waterways, maritime, and air transport infrastructure positively influence gross domestic product per capita (GDPC), though a negative link occurred in the case of railway transport. As concerning investments in transport infrastructure, the empirical results exhibit a positive impact on economic growth for every type of transport, except inland waterways. Besides, emissions of CO 2 from all kind of transport, alongside other specific air pollutants, negatively influence GDPC. The fully modified and dynamic ordinary least squares panel estimation results reinforce the findings. Further, in the short-run, Granger causality based on panel vector error correction model pointed out a unidirectional causal link running from sustainable economic growth to inland waterways and maritime transport of goods, albeit a one-way causal link running from the volume of goods transported by air to GDPC. As well, the empirical results provide support one-way short-run links running from GDPC to investments in road and inland waterway transport infrastructure. In addition, a bidirectional short-run link occurred between carbon dioxide emissions from railway transport and GDPC, whereas unidirectional relations with economic growth were identified in the case of carbon dioxide emissions from road and domestic aviation. In the long-run, a bidirectional causal relation was noticed between the length of the railways lines, investments in railway transport infrastructure, and GDPC, as well as a two-way causal link between the gross weight of seaborne goods handled in ports and GDPC.

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“…Hong et al [1] estimated the linkage between transportation infrastructure and regional economic growth using panel data of 31 Chinese provinces from 1998 to 2007. Yu et al [2] analyzed the causal linkages between transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China at national and regional levels. Pradhan and Bagchi [3] used Vector Error Correction model to examine the effect of transportation infrastructure on economic growth in India over the period from 1970 to 2010.…”

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Evaluating the Coordinated Development of Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits of Urban Public Transportation Infrastructure: The Case of Four Chinese Autonomous Municipalities

Sun

Cui

Tao

2017

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Abstract:The economic, social and environmental benefits generated by the use of urban public transportation infrastructure constitute a complex dynamic urban public transportation infrastructure utilization benefit system. This paper evaluates the coupling coordination among these three benefits taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example. These four cities have large-scale urban public transportation infrastructures but their utilization has many serious problems. The basic function of urban public transportation infrastructure has not been fully played in these cities. Whether the different benefits of urban public transportation infrastructure have been developed in harmony or not is unclear. We analyzed the coordinated development among three benefits by constructing coupling coordination degree model and used Gini coefficient to study the difference of coordinated development among three benefits of four cities. The result shows that the levels of coordinated development among three benefits of urban public transportation infrastructure were lower in these four cities and have positive correlation with it of urban public transportation infrastructure utilization benefit. Raising the level of urban public transportation infrastructure utilization benefit is the most crucial solution of promoting the coordinated development among three benefits.

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Transport Infrastructure, Spatial Clusters and Regional Economic Growth in China

Cited by 129 publications

References 46 publications

The Local Residents’ Concerns about Environmental Issues in Northwest China

The Local Residents’ Concerns about Environmental Issues in Northwest China

Empirical Evidence from EU-28 Countries on Resilient Transport Infrastructure Systems and Sustainable Economic Growth

Evaluating the Coordinated Development of Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits of Urban Public Transportation Infrastructure: The Case of Four Chinese Autonomous Municipalities

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