This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …

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 …

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … there is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness … from financial development to economic growth and from trade openness to CO2 emissions is identified. Our empirical results …

This paper searches for a general equilibrium model of optimal growth and endogenous fiscal policy with the aim of …

growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality … decreasing energy consumption decreases growth and vice versa, and that increasing energy consumption increases growth, and vice … cointegration relationship when country groups are considered. -- Africa ; energy consumption ; economic growth ; panel …