Undesirable output in efficiency and productivity: Example of the G20 countries

Chiu, Yung‐ho; Shyu, Ming-Kuang; Lee, Jen-Hui; Lu, Ching‐Cheng

doi:10.1080/15567249.2011.605100

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“…This impact mainly includes urban vegetation changes [32], atmospheric environmental crises [33], heat island effects [34], water pollution [35], and soil carbon cycles [36]. If the destruction of the ecological environment caused by urban expansion is included in the quality assessment system of economic growth as an unexpected output, urban expansion will significantly reduce the quality level of economic growth [37] (see Figure 1).…”

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Interactive Relationship among Urban Expansion, Economic Development, and Population Growth since the Reform and Opening up in China: An Analysis Based on a Vector Error Correction Model

Zhang

Xie

2019

Land

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Based on cointegration analysis, a vector error correction model (VECM), and the impulse response function method, this paper empirically analyses the interaction among urban expansion, economic development, and population growth in China from 1980 to 2016. The results show that (I) there is a long-term equilibrium relationship among urban expansion, economic development and population growth, but there is an imbalance in the short term. When urban expansion deviates from the long-term equilibrium, it cannot be restored to equilibrium in the short term. However, when economic development and population growth deviate from equilibrium, they will adjust back to equilibrium with strengths of −0.1770 and −0.0217, respectively. (II) From the results of the impulse response, there is an interactive statistical relationship between urban expansion, economic development, and population growth; In the short term, both economic development and population growth will cause urban expansion. In the long term, economic development will inhibit urban expansion, and economic development will be less dependent on land. Also, population growth has a long-lasting positive effect on urban expansion. (III) The results of variance decomposition show that urban expansion and economic development were most affected by the structural impact of population growth, and the relative variance contribution (RVC) rate was stable at 29.2% and 42%, respectively. However, economic development contributes the least to the RVC of urban expansion and population growth, and only stabilizes at 12.3% and 8.0% after 30 periods. Finally, the paper proposes that the Chinese government should maintain stable and healthy economic growth and promote sustainable land use in terms of improving land use efficiency, improving human capital levels, and promoting industrial structure.

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Section: Main Influence Paths Of Urban Expansionmentioning

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Interactive Relationship among Urban Expansion, Economic Development, and Population Growth since the Reform and Opening up in China: An Analysis Based on a Vector Error Correction Model

Zhang

Xie

2019

Land

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“…Chiu et al studied the production-environmental TFP of G20 countries based on Malmquist index [ 7 ], and showed that the production-environmental efficiency of these countries had decreased somewhat and still had a large space for improvement. Makridou et al combined the DEA model and Malmquist index to study the energy environmental efficiency and TFP of five energy-intensive industries in 23 EU countries [ 8 ], and the results showed that the energy efficiency of all sectors was improved during the study period, and technical change played a driving role in the improvement of TFP of energy environment.…”

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Research on China Cities’ Total Factor Productivity of Carbon Emission: Based on Decoupling Effect

Chen

Zhao

Wang

2022

IJERPH

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Economic development depends on energy consumption, which is a major source of carbon emission. How to achieve economic decarbonization has become one of the key questions urgently needing to be solved on the road of carbon peak and carbon neutral development in China. Advancing total factor productivity (TFP) of carbon emission is an important way to promote economic decarbonization. For the carbon emission TFP, current research is mainly conducted from province level or an industry perspective, and studies its deference with various geographical locations, economic development levels, urbanization levels, etc., lacking the research that combines the decoupling effect to carbon emission TFP. The carbon emission TFP of Chinese cities and how to improve it remain unclear. Therefore, based on Tapio decoupling theory, this paper firstly analyzed the decoupling effect of China’s 284 cities from 2005 to 2019, and aggregated the cities into four groups according to the decoupling effect. Then, using the DEA–Malmquist index, this paper researched the carbon emission TFP and its driving factors based on the aggregation. The result shows that weak decoupling is the main decoupling status in China. As a whole, carbon emission TFP of Chinese cities does not perform well, but it shows a growth trend over time. Strong decoupling cities outperform expansive negative decoupling cities on carbon emission TFP. Technical change and pure technical efficiency change have inhibiting effect and promoting effect on carbon emission TFP, respectively, which are the main factors for the difference of carbon emission TFP between strong decoupling cities and expansive negative decoupling cities. Based on these findings, some common but differentiated recommendations are provided for improving Chinese cities’ carbon emission TFP.

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“…The study pointed out that the global green development efficiency has been improved significantly during this period, and the green development efficiency of developed countries and emerging industrialized countries was higher than that of developing countries. In addition, most of the relevant researches are carried out in the following regions and organizations including East Asia [56] , Latin America [57] , inner of the European Union [58] , OECD [59] and G20 [60] . Compared with foreign countries, China's unique development environment also provides good empirical materials for green development research.…”

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Research progress and prospects of green development from the perspective of geography

Ren

2021

JGC

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Influenced by global financial crisis in 2008, many countries around the world have realized the significance of sustainable development. And green development, as the most important pathway to sustainability, has been implemented by various countries. In this context, green development has drawn great attention from academic researchers both at home and abroad in recent years and has become an interdisciplinary-oriented research direction. As an applied basic research field for exploring the structural change of resources and environment as well as regional sustainable development, geography plays an essential role in the research of green development. Based on an intensive literature review, this article firstly summarized the connotation and analytical framework of green development. Secondly, it systematically outlined the progress of green development research from the perspective of geography and thus extracted seven themes, that is, the influencing factors of green development, assessment methods, spatial and temporal characteristics of green development, green development and industrial transformation, green transformation of resource-based cities, the effect of green development, and green development institutions and recommendations. Comments were made on the existing studies including their shortcomings. Finally, future research emphases were discussed, aiming to provide references for further study on green development from the perspective of geography in China.

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Undesirable output in efficiency and productivity: Example of the G20 countries

Cited by 21 publications

References 27 publications

Interactive Relationship among Urban Expansion, Economic Development, and Population Growth since the Reform and Opening up in China: An Analysis Based on a Vector Error Correction Model

Interactive Relationship among Urban Expansion, Economic Development, and Population Growth since the Reform and Opening up in China: An Analysis Based on a Vector Error Correction Model

Research on China Cities’ Total Factor Productivity of Carbon Emission: Based on Decoupling Effect

Research progress and prospects of green development from the perspective of geography

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