This study examines the relationship between renewable energy consumption, poverty alleviation and economic growth in South Africa. The paper applies Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to examine long run Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) determine direction of causality variables. Quarterly data is used for period 1990 – 2018. findings established a presence poverty, growth, financ...

There has been much discussion on the relationship between education and economic growth. A few studies have examined the increasing trend of female enrolment in educational institutions and economic growth. The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate four alternatives but equally plausible hypotheses. These are: i) GDP cause female enrolment proxies (the conventional view), ii) F...

This study attempts to investigate the long-run Granger causality relationship between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emission and economic growth in India over the period 1971-2007. The augmented Dickey– Fuller test (ADF), Phillips-Perron test (PP) and KPSS test are used to test for Granger causality in cointegration models which take account of the stochastic properties of the variables. ...

To examine the causation between consumption, export, import, and economic growth for Sultanate of Oman using yearly time series data collected from World Bank 2000-2018. Further, it was tested by basic statistics, Bound test with ARDL model, Granger-causality tests. The findings analysis indicate presence both long-run short-run associations among competing variables. Model result reflects tha...

This study examines the relation of the stock markets in India with some leading South Asian countries and also endeavours to communicate the impression whether Indian equity market is more proficient than the other south Asian markets as is popularly believed.Integrated financial market is assumed to be of immense significance as it constitutes an important vehicle for promoting domestic savin...

This study aims to investigate whether energy consumption, human capital and financial development played an important role in economic growth using a panel dataset of six ASEAN countries over the period 1995–2017. Various econometric techniques—the cross-sectional dependence, unit root, cointegration, long-run estimates, Granger causality tests—are applied. The results data analyses show that ...

This study contributes to the recent debate on immigration and unemployment in Australia by investigating the causal linkage between immigration and unemployment. The question of whether `immigrants rob jobs' is examined by identifying the sources of unemployment through causal linkages between unemployment and other key variables such as immigration. The research finds no Granger causality bet...