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Fiscal Policy To Promote Green Growth

Posted on:2008-12-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y W SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360212991663Subject:Political economy
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In pursuit of rapid economic growth target, the traditional industrial civilization brought rapid economic development and people's material living standard has improved, but it has consumed the global natural resource by the astonishing speed, emit large quantities of waste. The human relationship with nature is deteriorating, a serious threat to human survival and development. China is a large developing country, but has paid a heavy environmental price for the high-speed economic growth. Currently, major rivers and lakes have suffered from varying degrees of pollution, and urban air pollution has given rise to serious threat to the health of residents. Industrial hazardous wastes, urban garbage increase noise nuisance are very serious. Ecological damage prominent, nearly 1 / 3 of the land facing soil erosion, desertification and grassland degradation of natural phenomena seriously, forest ecosystem function is severely degraded. The economic loss caused by the pollution is growing and startling. According to the experts, the loss of GDP caused by environmental pollution has reached 10%. And in 2020, accompanied by quadrupling the rapid economic growth and industrialization of heavy deepens, pollutant emissions will increase further, to the vulnerable environment cause enormous challenge. Under such circumstances, how reasonably and effectively uses the resources, reduce resource consumption and pollution emissions, walks road of the growth which an economy and the environment coordinates, has become important issue which our country's industrialization and the modernized advancement central plane is faced with.Make use of the combination method that system analysis, comparative studies, standardized analysis and empirical analysis, Qualitative and quantitative study, starting with China's current environmental problems in the course of economic growth, this article proposed that our country must walk road of the green growth which the economy and the environment coordinates. On the basis of a comprehensive study of green growth content, from a fiscal policy perspective, it focus on the policies promoting green growth, such as tax revenue , sewage charges revenue environmental policy ,financial investment, government transfer payments, other financial expenditure policy and financial supervision policy. The paper discussed the environment finance frame and various environmental economic policy coordinated question, and proposed promotes financial policy mentality which our country green grows. The full text divides into the introduction and the main text two parts. The main text has 5 chapters. Introduction: it mainly clarifies the theoretical and practical background and significance of the topic selection, summaries closely the current study situation, theoretical achievements and insufficiencies of the relationship between the environment and economy, and fiscal policy and environmental quality, shows the study method, and sums up the structure and frame, main views and creative parts of this dissertation. In chapter 1, it focuses on the growth of green essence and significance. Starting from mutual relations of economic growth and the environment, the article analyzes the feasibility of the green growth, and has carried on the historical inspection, points out the green growth is the inevitable choice which China develops. After defining the definition of green growth, it establishes a preliminary green growth model, and discusses the model policy meaning.In Chapter 2, it focuses on financial policy theories to promote green growth. The article analyzes the theoretical and the realistic necessity which the financial policy promotes green growth and discuses the financial policy promoting role to green growth.In chapter 3, it concretely studies the financial revenue policy of promoting green growth. In carries on the international comparison in the foundation, analyzes the financial revenue policy situation of our country to promote green growth, and put forward the concrete financial revenue policy reform proposal.In chapter 4, it concretely studies the expenditure policy of promoting green growth. It analyses environment investment, the financial shift payment to the environment friendly science and technology investment. In conducts the comparison research after the international environment investment policy, has analyzed our country present situation, and proposed the concrete policy measure.In chapter 5, it focuses on financial policy innovation question of promoting green growth. It proposed the environment finance frame and discussed the coordinated questions between green financial policy and other environment economic policies. There are some main innovations. 1. The meaning of green growth is defined. Pointed out the green growth attention is the environment but the non- growth, is to the environment use in its environmental capacity under the premise growth. At the same time, in the foundation which the predecessor studies, proposed the green growth model, and discussed the model policy meaning. 2. The promotion of green growth tax policy from the two aspects of the division. First, according to the function way, it is divided into the direct environment tax and the indirect environment tax. Second, according to final affects, it is divided into the stimulating environment tax and the bounded environment tax. 3. Analyzed Chinese green tax policy of promoting green growth. Proposed the resources tax reform, reforming pollutants fees to pollutants tax, suggested our country green tax revenue policy system take the resources tax, pollutants tax as the content. 4. Analyzed the current Chinese environment investment existing problems, and proposed the corresponding countermeasure.Summarized the environmental investment "three ensure " principl.e of ensuring that ensure the growth rate of the total environment expenditure is not lower than the GDP growth rate; ensure the growth rate of financial expenditure for environmental protection is not lower than the growth rate of fiscal revenue; ensure that the total investment in environmental protection is not entirely below the required total funds of pollution control. 5. Initially discussed between the financial shift payment and the region environment fair question.6. Proposed the financial policy ideas that the financial investment policies to control environmental pollution primarily, environmental tax policies to prevent the environment to destroy primarily.However, the research is only for the fiscal policy ideas of promoting green growth, and the concrete policies measures, such as specific environmental tax rate determined, collect methods is inadequate. These are needs for in-depth study in the future in light of the actual.
Keywords/Search Tags:green growth, environment finance, green tax system, financial policy, suggestion
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