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Environmental Performance Assessment of China's Manufacturing
Author(s) -
Zhang Tao
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
asian economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.345
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-8381
pISSN - 1351-3958
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2010.02026.x
Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , china , manufacturing sector , index (typography) , manufacturing , malmquist index , environmental pollution , economics , environmental economics , business , environmental scanning , natural resource economics , industrial organization , econometrics , environmental science , environmental protection , economic growth , environmental management system , geography , productivity , mathematics , statistics , computer science , total factor productivity , international economics , ecology , marketing , archaeology , world wide web , irrigation , biology
This paper applies the data envelopment analysis approach to contribute to the debate on the environmental performance of China's manufacturing sector. Regional and periodic differences in environmental efficiency, environmental quantity and environmental change indexes in China's manufacturing sector are examined for the period between 1998 and 2002. Within the framework of data envelopment analysis and distance functions, environmental quantity and environmental change indexes are measured as variants of the Malmquist quantity index. The overall environmental efficiency of China's manufacturing sector is very low, indicating substantial potential to reduce pollution emissions in China's manufacturing industries. The results and implications of this study can provide helpful information to improve the environmental performance of China's manufacturing sector.