关键词: 腐败 , 经济增长 , 环境污染 , 库兹涅茨效应

Abstract: So far，there is scant literature addressing the relationships of corruption，economic growth and environmental pollutionIt can provide direct evidence for understanding and verifying the relationship between corruption and the environment by putting them in the same research frameworkTo fill this gap，this paper introduces corruption into the traditional EKC model to verify the impacts of corruption on economic growth as well as the corruption and economic growth on the environment based on provincial panel data from 1995 to 2011 in ChinaThe paper finds as follows: first，the corruption is not conductive to economic growth in China；second，there is an inverted “U” shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution，where China is still in the faster economic growth，environmental pollution is more serious stages；third，the corruption weakens the negative effect of economic growth on environmental pollutionThe paper suggests that the government should increase efforts to combat corruption，construct an integrity government and reduce the occurrence of corruption during economic transformation to achieve economic growth and environment optimization

Key words: corruption , economic growth , environmental pollution , Kuznets curve