Environmental Pollution， Fiscal Decentralization and Chinas Economic Growth

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2016.01.005

Abstract

Abstract: By taking environmental pollution intensity and environmental quality as endogenous factors， the production function and utility function were introduced respectively to build an endogenous growth model with environmental pollution constraints， and the dynamic relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth was explored. Then， based on Chinas provincial panel data of 31 provinces from 2004 to 2012， the effect of economic growth on environment pollution was investigated， which suggested that the relationship between sulfur dioxide emissions and the actual GDP per capita is at a rising stage of Chinese environmental Kuznets curve， and there is still a distance from the turning point. On the basis of it， fiscal decentralization was introduced as a moderating variable， whose results indicated that fiscal decentralization weakens the positive effect of income level per capita on environmental pollution.

Key words: environmental pollution, fiscal decentralization, economic growth

CLC Number:

F061.3

HE Jun， LIU Liang-liang， TANG Shu-yi. Environmental Pollution， Fiscal Decentralization and Chinas Economic Growth[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2016, 18(1): 23-28.

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