What does MENA region initially need: Grow output or mitigate CO2 emissions?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 270-281

  Farhani, Sahbi ^a   Shahbaz, Muhammad ^b   Sbia, Rashid ^c   Chaibi, Anissa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d IPAG Business School ^*  (France)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions; Economic growth; Energy; Panel data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893447839     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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