Analysis on the Environmental Effects of FDI in China

Author

Liu, Liqin ; Wang, Lulu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Bus. Adm., Changchun Univ. of Technol., Changchun, China

fYear

2011

fDate

19-21 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The effect of foreign investment on six pollutants such as industrial polluted water, and sulfur dioxide is investigated with the regression model. The result shows that there isn´t significantly negative correlation between the FDI and pollution emission, which is contrary to the popular hypothesis so called pollution haven. The environmental effect of FDI notably varies among different regions, which isn´t negative in East China, while which is negative in central region and in West China. Improving the quality of introducing FDI and strengthening environmental protection are the effective way to inducing environmental pollution of FDI.

Keywords

environmental economics; environmental management; industrial pollution; investment; regression analysis; water pollution; China; FDI; environmental effects; environmental pollution; environmental protection; foreign investment; industrial polluted water; negative correlation; pollution emission; regression model; sulfur dioxide; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Indexes; Industrial waste; Investments; Solids; Water pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Management (CAMAN), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9282-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAMAN.2011.5778823

Filename

5778823