Energy use and economic growth in Africa: a panel Granger-causality investigation

Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Hatem M'Henni and Christophe Rault ()
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Christophe Rault: Toulouse Business School, France

Economics Bulletin, 2014, vol. 34, issue 2, 1247-1258

Abstract: We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no “one way” recommendation about energy-growth relationship that may work for all countries in Africa.

Keywords: Energy use; Growth; VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06-18
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Working Paper: Energy Use and Economic Growth in Africa: A Panel Granger-Causality Investigation (2014)
Working Paper: Energy use and Economic Growth in Africa: A Panel Granger-Causality Investigation (2014)
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