Foreign Direct Investment, Human Capital and Environmental Pollution in China

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-275

  Lan, Jing ^a   Kakinaka, Makoto ^b   Huang, Xianguo ^a  

^a NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Environmental pollution; FDI; Human capital; Pollution haven hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS; HUMAN CAPITALS; POLLUTION EMISSIONS; POLLUTION HAVEN HYPOTHESIS; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

POLLUTION;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; THRESHOLD;

CHINA;

EID: 84855971495     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9498-2     Document Type: Article

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