Assessing the Economic Development and Environmental Performance of G20 Countries: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

• Main Authors: Chien-Hung Lee, 李建宏
• Other Authors: Vincent F. Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34691058149379366112

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 工業管理系 === 101 === ABSTRACT The global warming caused by the environmental pollution and excessive emissions of greenhouse gases due to highly industrialization associated with economic development has attracted world-wide concern. One of the major factors that affect the climate change is greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997 and United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2012 showed continuing concern about climate change. But production activities are always accompanied by the emission of greenhouse gases, especially the carbon dioxide. Therefore, understanding the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions of the major economies is a topic worthy of study and concern. In order to understand the impact of economic development on environment, this study attempts to use G20 countries (Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) as the research subjects and carbon dioxide emission as an undesirable output to assess the economic development (Purchasing Power Parity as the indicator) and environmental performance (carbon dioxide emissions as the indicator) of G20 countries using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results obtained by this study are: 1. The number of efficient countries decreased from six to four during 2008-2010. 2. During 2008-2010, the efficient countries for three consecutive years were Argentina, France, Italy and the United States；The least efficient country for three consecutive years was South Africa. 3. The G20 countries with improved economic development performance during 2008-2010 were Australia, Germany, South Korea and the United Kingdom. 4. Comparison among Asian G20 countries, the efficiency of Taiwan was worse than that of Japan and Saudi Arabia, but better than that of China, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey.