Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: An Empirical Study on Pollution in Sichuan Province

Abstract

The paper is an empirical study on the relationship between economic growth and pollution, using the data from the province of Sichuan, China. Three pollutants – industrial wastewater, industrial solid wastes, and industrial gas waste – are considered. The results – obtained from the Johansen co-integration test and the Granger causality test – indicate that both industrial wastewater and industrial solid waste have a negative impact on economic growth, but not industrial gas waste.