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: LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans [2008-2011] - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CESifo - Center for Economic Studies and Ifo for Economic Research - CESifo Group Munich

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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: VAR; energy use; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06-18
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Published in Economics Bulletin, 2014, 34 (2), pp.1247-1258

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