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Diffusion of Sustainability Innovations around Lynedoch EcoVillage
Stüwe, Claudia - 2009
In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461026
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The relationship between energy consumption, energy prices and economic growth: Time series evidence from Asian developing countries
Asafu-Adjaye, J. - 2000
This paper estimates the causal relationships between energy consumption and income for India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, using cointegration and error-correction modelling techniques. The results indicate that, in the short-run, unidirectional Granger causality runs from energy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448215
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Energy consumption, economic growth and prices: A reassessment using panel VECM for developed and developing countries
Mahadevan, R.; Asafu-Adjaye, J. - 2007
This paper reinvestigates the energy consumption-GDP growth nexus in a panel error correction model using data on 20 net energy importers and exporters from 1971 to 2002. Among the energy exporters, there was bidirectional causality between economic growth and energy consumption in the developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448305
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CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in Tunisia
Chebbi, Houssem Eddine; Boujelbene, Y. - 2008
response do notconfirm the hypothesis that an increase in pollution levelinduces economic expansion. Although Tunisia has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445698
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Economic growth and commodity-market volatility in South Africa
Mazibuko, Palasta - 2008
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research studies the relationship between economic growth and commodity-market volatility in South Africa. The mining industry, largely supported by gold, diamonds, coal, iron ore and platinum-group metals, has played a central role in South Africa's economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442029
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Science and technology and economic growth in South Africa: performance and prospects
Kaplan, Dave - 2008
The main contribution to economic growth in South Africa prior to the early 1990s resulted from factor accumulation – principally capital, but also labour. Technological progress, as measured by total factor productivity (TFP) growth effectively made no contribution. From the 1990s however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475863
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Foreign direct investment and its importance to the economy of South Africa
Asafo-Adjei, Augustina - 2007
This study focuses on foreign direct investment ("FDI") and its importance to the economy of South Africa. Recognising that FDI, notwithstanding the type, can contribute to economic growth and development, most countries including South Africa are constantly working to attract it, and hence its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457743
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476170
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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449705
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250