In recent years,how to coordinate economic growth and environmental protection so as to achieve sustainable development is an urgent issue to China.With the increasing concern about environmental protection,attention should be paid to the efficiency on environmental expenditure by government.In this paper,by using DEA-Tobit model,the efficiency of fiscal expenditure on the environmental protection is calculated,and also the institutional structure of ‘ economic decentralization,political centralization’ and other related factors that have impacts on the efficiency are revalued.The result showed that there were widespread inefficiency in fiscal expenditure on environmental protection and differences between regions,which means that:the efficiency of fiscal expenditure of eastern and western provinces were similar but significantly higher than the central; the model of governance between central and local governments was defective,rooted in the evaluation mechanism of GDP as the core; expanding opening up and improving economy can significantly promote the level of efficiency; the industrialization was negative mainly due to the industry was a major source of environmental pollution; under the condition of shortage of environmental protection funds,higher industrialization would naturally reduce the efficiency of the capital ; the different effects on efficiency of fiscal expenditure on the environmental protection revealed that it was proportion of educated population not population density that can force the government to improve the level of efficiency of fiscal expenditure on environmental protection.Therefore,with the consideration of local governments' action inertia and path dependence,institutional revision and development should be made through ‘top-level design’ which could generate institutional supply to sustainable and healthy development; we could improve pollution emissions by motivating enterprises' technical innovation and mitigate the negative effects of industrialization by setting more careful environmental standards,strict supervision and law enforcement ; last but not least,continuous improvement of the proportion of educated population could force local governments to improve efficiency of fiscal expenditure on the environmental protection so as to realize the functions of government.
国家科技期刊平台
NSTL
万方数据
维普
