Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China
Background: Inclusive green development aims to combine economic inclusiveness with greenness, which is an important goal of current economic development for China to achieve common prosperity. Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity (IGTFP) is of great significance for evaluating the qu...
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| description | Background: Inclusive green development aims to combine economic inclusiveness with greenness, which is an important goal of current economic development for China to achieve common prosperity. Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity (IGTFP) is of great significance for evaluating the quality of inclusive economic growth and accelerating inclusive economic growth.Method: This study establishes an index evaluation system of IGTFP from four aspects of high quality, efficient, fair, and sustainable development, using super-SBM to measure IGTFP based on panel data of 276 cities in China from 2006 to 2019, and conducts empirical comparative analysis from national central cities, provincial capitals, and ordinary prefecture.Result: 1) The IGTFP and technical progress rate in the central city and the provincial capital are significantly higher than that of the ordinary prefecture, but there is no significant difference in technical efficiency; the growth rate of IGTFP in the most central city remains around 10%, which is significantly higher in the south than that in the north. 2) According to the index decomposition result, all cities have basically realized the double-line improvement of technological efficiency and technological progress rate, but the technological efficiency is mostly lower than the technological progress rate. 3) From the perspective of economic convergence, only the IGTFP of provincial capitals shows the σ convergence feature, that is, the phenomenon of intra-group convergence; the IGTFP of all cities in three levels shows the β convergence feature, indicating that there is an obvious catch-up phenomenon within the group.Conclusion: The integration of “technology” and “efficiency” is the main driving force and path to realize the sustainable improvement of IGTFP in cities. Inclusive green growth needs to break “regional boundaries,” including north–south boundaries and urban boundaries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7c905b76a53d48148553cdc0aa128c6d2022-12-22T02:44:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2022-08-011010.3389/fenvs.2022.966246966246Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in ChinaYongpan Guan0Huijuan Wang1Rong Guan2Lin Ding3School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Mathematics and Information Science, Yantai University, Yantai, ChinaBackground: Inclusive green development aims to combine economic inclusiveness with greenness, which is an important goal of current economic development for China to achieve common prosperity. Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity (IGTFP) is of great significance for evaluating the quality of inclusive economic growth and accelerating inclusive economic growth.Method: This study establishes an index evaluation system of IGTFP from four aspects of high quality, efficient, fair, and sustainable development, using super-SBM to measure IGTFP based on panel data of 276 cities in China from 2006 to 2019, and conducts empirical comparative analysis from national central cities, provincial capitals, and ordinary prefecture.Result: 1) The IGTFP and technical progress rate in the central city and the provincial capital are significantly higher than that of the ordinary prefecture, but there is no significant difference in technical efficiency; the growth rate of IGTFP in the most central city remains around 10%, which is significantly higher in the south than that in the north. 2) According to the index decomposition result, all cities have basically realized the double-line improvement of technological efficiency and technological progress rate, but the technological efficiency is mostly lower than the technological progress rate. 3) From the perspective of economic convergence, only the IGTFP of provincial capitals shows the σ convergence feature, that is, the phenomenon of intra-group convergence; the IGTFP of all cities in three levels shows the β convergence feature, indicating that there is an obvious catch-up phenomenon within the group.Conclusion: The integration of “technology” and “efficiency” is the main driving force and path to realize the sustainable improvement of IGTFP in cities. Inclusive green growth needs to break “regional boundaries,” including north–south boundaries and urban boundaries.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.966246/fullinclusive green total factor productivityindex evaluation systemurban levelsuper-SBMeconomic convergence |
| spellingShingle | Yongpan Guan Huijuan Wang Rong Guan Lin Ding Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China Frontiers in Environmental Science inclusive green total factor productivity index evaluation system urban level super-SBM economic convergence |
| title | Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China |
| title_full | Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China |
| title_fullStr | Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China |
| title_short | Measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in China |
| title_sort | measuring inclusive green total factor productivity from urban level in china |
| topic | inclusive green total factor productivity index evaluation system urban level super-SBM economic convergence |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.966246/full |
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