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difference, the Granger causality test yields a strong evidence for unidirectional causality running from OIL to GDP … other side, a lack of energy is a major bottleneck for further economic development in Cameroon. …The aim of this paper is to study the nature of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in …
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The paper presents stylized cross-country evidence for a negative relationship between energy use and economic growth …. Based on this motivation it develops a multisector framework to derive the growth impact of energy from first principles … results show a negative impact of energy use on investments in physical capital and knowledge formation. The estimations of …
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"Energy poverty" is a multidimensional concept that reflects the need to achieve a variety of wellbeing outcomes, which … has been scarcely studied and used in public policy agendas. Considering that the literature on energy poverty is still … incipient in Bolivia, this paper's objective is to generate evidence about energy poverty evolution in the country …
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"Energy poverty" is a multidimensional concept that reflects the need to achieve a variety of wellbeing outcomes, which … has been scarcely studied and used in public policy agendas. Considering that the literature on energy poverty is still … incipient in Bolivia, this paper's objective is to generate evidence about energy poverty evolution in the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014231849
possible constraints to economic development posed by available human time and energy. The aim of the paper is to identify … types of exosomatic energy metabolism of different societies to interpret its consequences for economic development. This is …Economic development goes hand in hand with an increase in the consumption of natural resources. Some analysts use …
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consumption and GDP are cointegrated for all these countries. Furthermore, there is a unidirectional causality from electricity … consumption to GDP for all groups in the long run. Effect of electricity consumption on the GDP is negative for the second group … of countries which supports the energy conservation policies, whereas it is positive for the first and third group of …
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often portrayed in an overly simplified manner as the main factor hindering agricultural development, African countries are … of state centralisation for agricultural development, so that African partners can fully take advantage of the …
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This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
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We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
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agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …
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