The role of industrial structure adjustment in China's low-carbon eco efficiency: A super-slack-based measure (super-SBM) approach
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract
Drawing on panel data of China's 30 selected provinces from 2005 to 2017, this paper examined the effects of industrial structure adjustment (IA) effects on low-carbon ecoefficiency (LCE). We utilised the Super-slack-based Measure (Super-SBM) to evaluate China's LCE and the Industrial structure advancement (ISA) and rationalisation (ISR), as an integrated part of IA, were selected to conduct the effect's examination adopting the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM). Our results indicate that the proposed Super-SBM model could effectively rank the SBM-efficiency provinces. However, the regional economic development did not follow a low-carbon pattern and LCE performance among regions and provinces was extremely uncoordinated, thus, forming a significant spatial distribution pattern. In addition, the SDM results proved that IA was a crucial channel for China to develop a low-carbon economy. In contrast, the comparative analysis showed that ISR could be regarded as an essential pathway for most provinces to sustain LCE growth compared with ISA. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
industrial structure adjustment, Low-carbon eco-efficiency, Spatial Durbin Model, undesirable outputs Super-SBM model
Divisions
developmentstudies,economics
Publication Title
International Journal of Economics and Management
Volume
16
Issue
1
Publisher
Universiti Putra Malaysia