Recent Reports from Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance Highlight Findings in Environmental Protection (Effects of FDI on the Efficiency of Government Expenditure on Environmental Protection Under Fiscal Decentralization: A …)

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2019 AUG 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Current study results on Environment - Environmental Protection have been published. According to news reporting originating from Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Most governments strive for an ecological civilization so the efficiency of government expenditure on environmental protection (EPEE) is an important issue. While it is recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) enhances environmental protection, this investigation focuses on the effects of FDI on the efficiency of government expenditure on environmental protection under fiscal decentralization.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, “Analysis is conducted using an output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) scale return model to calculate the efficiency of environmental protection spending in China. Then, a spatial model is built to test the linkages among FDI, fiscal decentralization and the efficiency of government expenditure. The results reveal that, firstly, the efficiency of government spending has been enhanced over the last 10 years. Secondly, FDI is positively correlated with the efficiency of government environmental expenditure in terms of both quantity and quality of spending and it has a positive spillover effect. Thirdly, financial decentralization is negatively correlated with the efficiency of environmental spending, but it improves the effect of FDI.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Accordingly, policy proposals are that the government should improve the supervision system for environmental spending and local governments should pursue FDI, improve the structure of FDI and use its spillover effect to enhance the efficiency of environmental expenditure.”

For more information on this research see: Effects of FDI on the Efficiency of Government Expenditure on Environmental Protection Under Fiscal Decentralization: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019;16(14):2496.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting X. Li, School of International Economy and Trade, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai 201209, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Y. Qu, Y. Zhang, X. Li and X. Miao.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16142496. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.