a performance evaluation of the energy, environmental, and economic efficiency and productivity in china an application of global data envelopment analysis论文.pdf

Applied Energy 147 (2015) 617–626 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal homepage: www.elsevi /locat e/apenergy A performance evaluation of the energy, environmental, and economic efficiency and productivity in China: An application of global data envelopment analysis Zhaohua Wang a,b,⇑, Chao Feng a,b a School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China b Center for Energy Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China h i g h l i g h t s This study calculates China’s E3 efficiency and productivity using global DEA. The result shows that China performs well on the economic efficiency. While the energy and environmental performances are not optimistic. Energy and environmental efficiency have improved gradually in recent years. Technical progress is the most powerful contributor to China’s productivity growth. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The current mode of economic development in China is typified by high growth, high energy consump- Received 18 July 2014 tion, and high pollution characteristics and this has caused great stress on both energy consumption and Received in revised form 26 January 2015 the environment. This paper focuses on a historical analysis of China’s energy, environmental, and eco- Accepted 27 January 2015 nomic (‘E3’) efficiency and the sources of E3 productivity growth therein. A developed slacks-based mea- Available online 1 April 2015