This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence … of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to lower energy intensity for all countries. The study also finds …

This paper examines the growth patterns of emerging Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries …

unemployment. In the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) it has led to hidden unemployment (underemployment and low … contrast, in the CIS for most workers unemployment is not an affordable option. They either stick to their old, unproductive …, underemployment in the CIS is a mirror image of unemployment in the European transition economies. Accordingly, the high employment …

weak exogeneity in panel cointegration models. The test has a limiting Gumbel distribution that is obtained by first … letting the time dimension of the panel go to infinity and then letting its cross-sectional dimension go to infinity.The paper …

Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have … growth. The author addresses the causes of this phenomenon in the CIS-7. He argues that the lack of job creation is explained …

labeled as "jobless growth." For the first time for Morocco, this paper uses quarterly panel data to investigate the question …