Study on the Effect of Environmental Kuznets Curve on China's Economic Growth Based on Income Inequality

摘要

In this paper, using time-series data of China from 1981 to 2011, in the perspective of the income inequality expands Environmental Kuznets Curve and analysis the effects of environmental pollution, and by the impact of extending the four-quadrant diagram, draw the economic growth mechanism. The results show that: First, The EKC exists inverted U-shaped relationship based on income gap, and the effects of income inequality on environmental pollution is positive and lagged. Secondly, the effect of income gap on economic growth depends on the stage of economic development, it promotes economic growth in the early days of reforming, but blocking on the current. Therefore, in order to implement the scientific concept of development we should effectively suppress widening income gap to achieve sustained growth of China's economy healthy.