Pollution Across Chinese Provinces

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We revisit the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces. A comparison of off-sample (1996-2004) predictions to actual emissions indicates that more stringent rules are still needed to fight industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution; and, commitment to control industrial dust pollution is correlated with local governments' budget balance.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 223

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
• Subject: environmental Kuznets curves ; Chinese provinces ; pollution ; Umweltbelastung ; Environmental Kuznets Curve ; Provinz ; China

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Co, Catherine Yap ; Kong, Fanying ; Lin, Shuanglin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
• (where): New Delhi
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/176241
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET