Electricity consumption-economic growth Nexus: An aggregated and disaggregated causality analysis in India and Pakistan

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 538-553

  Abbas, Faisal ^a   Choudhury, Nirmalya ^b  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture growth; Causality; Electricity consumption; Error Correction Modelling; India; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878946846     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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