Progressing sustainable development of “the Belt and Road countries”: Estimating environmental efficiency based on the Super‐slack‐based measure model

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yigang Wei ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Meiyu Wu ◽  
Yingbo Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Measure Model ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Unified Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Transportation Infrastructure in China Based on Range-Adjusted Measure Model and Difference in Difference Model

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Yijiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

The Belt and Road Initiative has brought new opportunities for countries along the routes to develop their transportation infrastructure. Through large-scale transportation infrastructure construction, these countries enhanced the Belt and Road cooperation with each other, which further facilitates the rapid development of their own economy, but whether this can promote the sustainable development of their own environment, relevant research is still lacking. In this paper, China is taken as the study subject to evaluate the comprehensive effects that the Belt and Road Initiative exerts on the economy and environment through improving transportation infrastructure. In the study, RAM indicators were first established to measure the unified economic and environmental efficiency of transportation infrastructure, a DID model was then built to study the effects of the Initiative on the unified efficiency, and mediation models were finally created to discuss the ways in which the Belt and Road Initiative can improve the unified economic and environmental efficiency of transportation infrastructure through transformation and upgrade of industrial structure. The study result shows that the Belt and Road Initiative can significantly promote the improvement of the unified economic and environmental efficiency of the national transportation infrastructure, but the result is regionally heterogeneous. The Initiative has positive effects in improving the unified efficiency in eastern region but has no effect in the central and western regions. Although the Initiative can significantly enhance the efficiency through transforming and upgrading the industrial structure, the industrial structure rationalization plays a primary positive role. This paper provides the empirical evidences to evaluate the implementation effects of the Initiative in the transportation infrastructure sector and verifies that countries along the routes can achieve sustainable development through large-scale transportation infrastructure construction under the Belt and Road Initiative.

scholarly journals The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanbo Li ◽  
Xufeng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Belt And Road

During the initial implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda), the Second Ministerial Meeting of the Forum of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was held in Santiago, Chile, in January 2018. During this forum, China officially invited 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This study links three important global governance issues: The 2030 Agenda, China-LAC relations and BRI. The authors attempt to analyze how China’s BRI in the LAC region can learn from the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations with 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). This study shows that although China and the LAC region have strong political, economic and trade relationships, they must deepen dialogues and cooperation on sustainable development, especially the 2030 Agenda with 17 SDGs, which can be inspirations for China’s BRI in this region. BRI, which aligns with the 2030 Agenda and contributes to Chinese experience in development, can generate new opportunities for the LAC region to implement such an agenda. However, the challenges and risks of BRI cannot be ignored, and adequate answers and solutions should be provided to allow BRI to achieve a win–win outcome for China and LAC countries. The authors also examine the alignment of China’s policies towards LAC and BRI with the 2030 Agenda (17 SDGs) and the involvement of each SDG in these policies as the 2030 Agenda (17 SDGs) should be considered in policy-making for China’s BRI in the LAC region. Moreover, on the basis of previous analyses, suggestions for a successful BRI in the LAC region in six sectors are proposed in the context the 2030 Agenda.

scholarly journals The Belt and Road Initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals

One Earth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-267
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Alice C. Hughes ◽  
Gulshan Sachdeva ◽  
Divya Narain ◽  
Taidong Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Belt And Road

scholarly journals Energy, environment and sustainable development of the belt and road initiative: The Chinese scenario and Western contributions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 100009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Benintendi ◽  
Elena Merino Gòmez ◽  
Gianluigi De Mare ◽  
Antonio Nesticò ◽  
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Energy Environment ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road
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