Study the Effect of Environmental Kuznets Curve on China's Economic Growth Based on Income Inequality
- DOI
- 10.2991/icemc-16.2016.229How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Income inequality; Environmental pollution; Environmental kuznets curve; Economic growth
- Abstract
In this paper, using time-series data of China from 1981 to 2011, in the perspective of the income inequality expands Environmental Kuznets Curve and analysis the effects of environmental pollution, and by the impact of extending the four-quadrant diagram, draw the economic growth mechanism. The results show that:First, The EKC exists inverted U-shaped relationship based on income gap, and the effects of income inequality on environmental pollution is positive and lagged. Secondly, the effect of income gap on economic growth depends on the stage of economic development, it promotes economic growth in the early days of reforming, but blocking on the current. Therefore, in order to implement the scientific concept of development we should effectively suppress widening income gap to achieve sustained growth of China's economy healthy.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Juanjuan Qin PY - 2016/05 DA - 2016/05 TI - Study the Effect of Environmental Kuznets Curve on China's Economic Growth Based on Income Inequality BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management and Computer Science PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1187 EP - 1194 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemc-16.2016.229 DO - 10.2991/icemc-16.2016.229 ID - Qin2016/05 ER -