Developing countries are notorious for their enforcement gap in environmental regulation.
Despite policymakers and scholars focusing on this phenomenon in China, there is little …

A robust environmental management system holds great significance for the Chinese
government in effectively managing the country's carbon emissions. This study delves into …

The implementation of fiscal decentralization reform and resulting vertical fiscal imbalance,
which is not beneficial for local governmental administration, have been widely observed in …

Economic development and industrialization are usually associated with severe
environmental pollution. Differently, China's poverty alleviation programs did not …

Fiscal policies are crucial to resource management in a world struggling with natural
resource sustainability. This paper examines the dynamic interaction of budgetary …

This paper constructs a fixed effect model to study the impact of turnover of local government
officials on local air quality, and the mechanism through which this effect takes place, using …

Regional integration is an important trend of economic development worldwide, which helps
to break the restrictions of administrative divisions on economic development and pollution …

The paper aimed to examine the awareness of unpredictability in economic policy, fiscal
decentralization, and innovative approaches to preserve the environment in South Africa …

There is a broad consensus in favour of the green development mode in China, and thus, it
is important to establish a safeguard mechanism with which to make such development …

This study aims to investigate whether fiscal decentralization can reduce the pollution
emissions intensity of firms. Little is known about how fiscal decentralization affects firm …