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Has Fiscal Expenditure on Science and Technology Enhanced the Intensive Level of Economic Growth—An Empirical Test Based on Provincial Panel Data
Li Nan, Deng Li
2019, (6):
5-15.
doi: 10.16716/j.cnki.65-1030/f.2019.06.001
As China's economy has entered a period of new normal, enhancing the intensive level of economic growth is an inherent requirement of achieving high-quality economic growth. As an important means for the government to allocate scientific and technological innovation resources as well as support the technological innovation activities, financial expenditure on science and technology has an important impact on improving the intensive level of China's economic growth. However, few literatures have paid attention to this issue. This paper theoretically reveals the dual impacts of fiscal science and technology expenditure on the intensive level of economic growth, and adopts the provincial panel data from 1996 to 2018 to construct a dynamic panel model for empirical testing. The results show that, firstly, China's fiscal expenditure on science and technology promotes the intensive level of economic growth; secondly, fiscal science and technology expenditure in the eastern, central and western regions has different policy effects on the intensive level of economic growth. Fiscal science and technology expenditure in the eastern region has played a significant role in promoting the intensive level of economic growth, while fiscal science and technology expenditure in the central and western regions has no significant impact on the intensive level of economic growth. In order to enhance the efficiency of China's scientific and technological innovation as well as promoting the transformation of economic growth mode, it is suggested to appropriately expand the scale of fiscal expenditure on science and technology, optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure on science and technology, moderately strengthen the central transfer payments to the middle and west regions as well as constantly improve the constraint mechanism and supervision mechanism of local government financial expenditure on science and technology.
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