This paper explores the causality problem between income inequality and economic growth for 9 countries of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the period ranging from 1960 to 2011. In this study, we applied the cointegration techniques, that means the Granger causality tests (in the...

Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....

The main research aim is to investigate and test the long-term existence of a balanced relationship (cointegration) between business demographics and economic growth, expressed in terms of real GDP per capita, and to estimate the econometric models expressing relationships between analyzed...