Energy Use and Economic Growth in Africa: A Panel Granger-Causality Investigation

Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Hatem M'Henni and Christophe Rault

No 4844, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no “one way” recommendation about energy-growth relationship that may work for all countries in Africa.

Keywords: energy use; growth; VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q43 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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