Environmental efficiency evaluation of thermal power generation in China based on a slack-based endogenous directional distance function model
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Decision analysis; Environmental Kuznets curve; Emission reduction; Directional distance function model; Slack-based measures; Thermal power generation; China;All these keywords.
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