Journal
ENERGY
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages 840-856Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.09.032
Keywords
Productivity; Chinese manufacturing industries; DEA; Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index; CO2 emissions; Environmental efficiency
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71201158]
- Newton Fund from Royal Academy of Engineering [NRCP/1415/80]
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China has achieved significant progress in terms of economic and social developments since implementation of reform and open policy in 1978. However, the rapid speed of economic growth in China has also resulted in high energy consumption and serious environmental problems, which hindering the sustainability of China's economic growth. This paper provides a framework for measuring eco-efficiency with CO2 emissions in Chinese manufacturing industries. We introduce a global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index (GMLPI) that can handle undesirable factors within Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This study suggested after regulations imposed by the Chinese government, in the last stage of the analysis, i.e. during 2011-2012, the contemporaneous frontier shifts towards the global technology frontier in the direction of more desirable outputs and less undesirable outputs, i.e. producing less CO2 emissions, but the GMLPI drops slightly. This is an indication that the Chinese government needs to implement more policy regulations in order to maintain productivity index while reducing CO2 emissions. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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