TITLE:
An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Agriculture Environmental Efficiency and Economic Growth
AUTHORS:
Xiaobo Wei, Jue Peng, Lu Cao
KEYWORDS:
Agriculture Environmental Efficiency, Economic Growth, SBM Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
23,
2014
ABSTRACT:
According
to environmental Kuznets hypothesis, inverted “U” relationship exists between
environmental quality and economic development. Along with economic growth,
environmental quality will be presented a trend that first gets worsening and
then gets improved [1]
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. The agricultural environment efficiency will be presented a trend that
first decreases and then increases along with agricultural nonpoint source
pollution changes at different stages of economic development [2]
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. In order to verify whether such relationship exists in various
provinces of China’s agricultural production, this paper is based on accounting
for agriculture pollution emissions per province of China, and calculates the
agriculture environmental efficiency in various provinces of China of 20 years
in 1992-2011 based on SBM model. On this basis, further study on the
relationship between the agriculture environmental efficiency and economic
growth has been done. The result shows that causal relationship exists between
agriculture environmental efficiency and China’s economic growth, and the curve
between agriculture environmental efficiency and economic growth is showing “U”
shape, indirectly verified the EKC hypothesis.