Author(s)

Shijie Zhu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Business School, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Corresponding Author

Shijie Zhu

ABSTRACT

By referring to relevant policies, theories and analysis methods, the paper uses the three-stage DEA model to further measure and evaluate the efficiency of green development of Jiangsu Province and the selected regions in the province, while identifying the environmental factors of the progress and the corresponding influences. The paper makes multi-angle analyses of the multi-period green development level of the cities and regions in Jiangsu Province. Based on all the results of data analyses and empirical research, this paper sorts out and summarizes the different economic green development levels, different changing paths of economic green development efficiency, different performances of the scale efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and technical efficiency, different changes of the returns to scale, and corresponding improvement paths of the areas in Jiangsu Province. Finally, this paper puts forward policy suggestions from three perspectives: the synergy capacity of green development among areas in Jiangsu Province, the improvement path associated with the change of their returns to scale, and the specific methods to improve the efficiency of economic green development of different types of regions.

KEYWORDS

Economic green development, Jiangsu Province, Three-stage DEA model

CITE THIS PAPER

Shijie Zhu, Research on the Economic Green Development Efficiency of the Regions in Jiangsu Province, China—Based on Three-Stage DEA Model. Population, Resources & Environmental Economics (2023) Vol. 4: 43-59. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/pree.2023.040106.

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