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

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1247-1258

  Rault, Christophe ^a   Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi ^b   Youssef, Adel Ben ^c   M'Henni, Hatem ^d  

^a TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c GREDEG CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANOUBA   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Energy use; Growth; VAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902657310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15452921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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