Looking at the Impacts of Income Inequality on Environmental Governance in China

Yao Bo Shi


School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China (China)

Xin Xin Zhao


China School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China (China)

Chyi-Lu Jang


Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Taiwan, Province of China)

Qiang Fu


School of Economics and Management, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China (China)

Chun-Ping Chang

cpchang@g2.usc.edu.tw
Shih Chien University at Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Taiwan, Province of China)


Abstract

This research investigates the impacts of income inequality (proxied by the Gini index) on environmental governance (proxied by per capita government investments on industrial pollution prevention) by employing the panel fixed effect model, system generalized method of moments and bias-corrected least-squares dummy variables model for 23 provinces from 1995 to 2014. The results indicate that income inequality exhibits significantly positive impacts on government environmental governance investment in China, which reveals that an increase in income inequality may help to improve environmental governance in China; we thus offer several remittable implications for those policy makers in Chinese provinces as well as governments of emergent economies like China.

JEL codes: Q56, Q58, O15


Keywords:

income inequality, environmental governance, SYS-GMM, LSDVC

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2019-07-01

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Shi, Y. B., Zhao, X. X., Jang, C.-L., Fu, Q., & Chang, C.-P. (2019). Looking at the Impacts of Income Inequality on Environmental Governance in China. Problemy Ekorozwoju, 14(2), 63–70. Retrieved from https://ph.pollub.pl/index.php/preko/article/view/5080

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Yao Bo Shi 

School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China China

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Xin Xin Zhao 

China School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China China

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Chyi-Lu Jang 

Department of Political Economy, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Taiwan, Province of China

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Qiang Fu 

School of Economics and Management, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China China

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Chun-Ping Chang 
cpchang@g2.usc.edu.tw
Shih Chien University at Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Taiwan, Province of China

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