Correlation between electric power and economic development in Taiwan
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Chen, Jong-Shun
Abstract
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) which discusses the dependence between environmental pressure and economic growth is pioneered by Grossman and Krueger in 1991. After that, more significant deterioration of global climate change can be observed, hence, the research of EKC is transferred to the correlation between per capita GDP and CO2 emissions per capita. Due to the great different situations of various countries and the impact from international trade, technical capacity, policy execution, development history and measurement conditions, there are many comments about the accuracy of EKC hypothesis. To simplify analytical model, this study is based on the view of development economics, and take ‘population’ as a constraint of a country’s economic scale and industrial structure. The countries with more than ten million populations and more than 10,000 GDP per capita are chosen for further analysis. There are 18 countries (including Taiwan) satisfied above conditions in 2011 from the IEA global statistics, and the 2/3 countries have commercially operating nuclear power plants. Focus on the countries with more than 30,000 GDP per capita, there are 8/9 countries with commercially operating nuclear power plants, and significant inverted U-shaped curves can be observed in which 6 countries. Furthermore, this study describes the effects of socioeconomic background, energy strategy and nuclear strategy for the 18 representative countries from the point of energy economic. Especially for Taiwan, multifactor productivity (MFP) method is utilized to find the difficulties currently encountered in our country and to seek solutions. From the analytical results, we know that national democratic extent, markets open or not and independent of energy (including nuclear energy) proportion are key factors for a country with more than ten million populations to keep sustainable development.
Subjects
EKC
MFP
nuclear energy
GDP
independent of energy
Type
thesis
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