The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic growth in China for the period 1977–2011. Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach (ARDL) to cointegration and Johansen cointegration techniques are employed by including intermittent...

The strategic formulation of Chinese-style economic growth targets is of great significance for economic and social development, but it may also affect energy consumption. Using provincial data from 2000 to 2018 in China, this study empirically analyzes the impact of economic growth targets on...

This paper is an effort to investigate claims concerning Granger causality relationship from energy consumption to economic growth in South Africa. We adopt a nonparametric bootstrap method to reassess evidence supporting Granger causality and unravel findings of long-run unidirectional...