FDI helps improve China’s environmental quality but exporting worsens it, according to the author’s panel data analysis. Developed countries transfer pollution to China through trade. The time series analysis reveal...FDI helps improve China’s environmental quality but exporting worsens it, according to the author’s panel data analysis. Developed countries transfer pollution to China through trade. The time series analysis reveals a positive U-shaped relationship between environmental pollution and per-capita GDP in China. These results do not conform to the EKC hypothesis, though the results of panel data do. Such results are inconsistent with those of previous empirical studies. In this regard, we attempt to provide reasonable explanations and offer policy proposals.展开更多
文摘FDI helps improve China’s environmental quality but exporting worsens it, according to the author’s panel data analysis. Developed countries transfer pollution to China through trade. The time series analysis reveals a positive U-shaped relationship between environmental pollution and per-capita GDP in China. These results do not conform to the EKC hypothesis, though the results of panel data do. Such results are inconsistent with those of previous empirical studies. In this regard, we attempt to provide reasonable explanations and offer policy proposals.
