Proceedings of Eurasia Business Research Conference
4 - 6 June 2015, Nippon Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey, ISBN: 978-1-922069-77-1
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Dang Yuting and Hasnat Dewan
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The scale and pace of urbanization in China over the last two decades have been unprecedented. Average economic growth rate has been over seven percent during this period. With higher energy consumption, per capita CO
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emission has also increased substantially during this time. However, one could find significant regional variations in economic growth, energy consumption, urbanization, and CO
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emissions due to different approaches taken by the regional authorities in this period. Those differences between provinces are becoming smaller over time, which is indicative of some kind of convergence. Data also seems to suggest that urbanization improves efficiency in energy usage. This paper examines the complex relationships between urbanization, energy consumption, CO
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emissions, and economic growth for a panel of 29 Chinese provinces.
Using different econometrics techniques co-integrated and causal relationships between the variables are explored.
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Dang Yuting, Tianjin University of Technology, China
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Corresponding author. Thompson Rivers University, 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8,
Canada. Email: hdewan@tru.ca; Tel: +1 250 371 5986.