Energy Development and Economic Growth Efficiency in Minority Areas:Based on the ‘Resource Curse’ Hypothesis
The ‘ resource curse’ phenomenon is a new problem associated with the energy and resource development.Based on the panel data from 2000 to 2012,this paper explored the ‘ resource curse’ effect in minority areas,discussed the differences of ‘ resource curse’ effect in different minority regions,analyzed factors that affect the ‘ resource curse’ effect,used analytic hierarchy process to calculate weight,and built the model of economic efficiency to explore the influence of economic efficiency from ‘ resource curse’ effect.The results show that ‘resource curse’ does exist in minority regions.As for single variable,it can be found that the dependence of energy industry can inhibit the ‘ resource curse’ effect in Yunnan,Guangzhou,Guizhou,Qinghai,Xinjiang,but it aggravates the effect in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.Meanwhile,the energy industry abundances and the energy development strength can relaxes the effect in Qinghai,Ningxia,Xinjiang,but it aggravates the effect in Inner Mongolia,Yunnan,Guangxi,Guizhou;As for provinces,the ‘ resource curse’ effect in Inner Mongolia is obvious while the others are relatively weak.From the results of panel data model,the variables with promotion in economic growth are technological innovation investment,energy development strength and physical capital investment,and the variables with obstruction in economic growth are the dependence of energy industry and energy industry abundances.On the aspect of the changes of coal,natural gas and oil products in different provinces,the origin of the ‘ resource curse’ effect is coal.Except the coal,the dependence on oil of Qinghai,which the dependence on natural gas of Ningxia,while the dependence both on oil and natural gas of Xinjiang are in the same level.Based on the dynamic changes of efficiency value from 2000 to 2012,the ‘ resource curse’ effect in Inner Mongolia,Yunnan,Guangxi,Qinghai and Ningxia is obvious while the time inflection points are appearing respectively in 2004,2006,2003,2001 and 2003.The discrete state of efficiency value in Xinjiang seems serious,but it has downward trend as a whole;The ‘resource curse’ effect in Guizhou is obvious in the early while it has been eliminated after 2006.To get rid of the ‘resource curse’ effect,some measures should be taken in the minority areas such as optimizing the industrial structure,reducing the dependence of coal,making the dependent resource industrial to be the independent resource industrial,enlarging the employment and expanding economic growth space.Besides,it should be initiated with increasing the input of technological innovation,strengthening the investment of technology and education,improving the technology innovation ability,accelerating the efficiency of energy development.
resource curseenergy industry dependencyefficiency of economic growthminority areas
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维普
