省际绿色全要素生产率增长趋势的分析——一种非参数方法的应用

本文应用非参数方法计算考虑环境污染变量的全要素生产率，对全国各省经济发展的质量进行了重新评价。结果表明，这种新的绿色全要素生产率指标对省际经济发展质量的评价与常规的全要素生产率指标的评价结果有很大的差异，以两种指数作为衡量指标的地区间的排名有显著不同，而且绿色全要素生产率指标与GDP指标没有显著的相关关系。在保证统计数据质量的前提下，绿色全要素生产率的核算可以成为衡量各地区和全国经济发展质量的一种有效的和低成本的途径，具有一定的应用价值。

Analysis of Inter-provincial Green Total Factor Productivity Application of a Non-parametric Method

Using non-parametric method, this paper calculated total factor productivity indexes incorporating environmental variables for provinces in China. The Green TFP indexes, covering the period during 1991 and 2004, were more comprehensive indicators gauging quality of regional economic development than the traditional TFP measures and the measure of per capita GDP. They demonstrated very different trends of growth from the traditional TFP indexes. And there was no statistically significant correlation between the new TFP indexes and per capita GDP across provinces. It is therefore conceivable that measuring the growth of Green TFP indexes can be an effective and low cost way of measuring quality of economic growth if data quality is ensured.