Contribution/Originality: This study contributes to the existing literature of energy consumption-growth nexus for small island developing states. It uses new estimation methodology namely the Panel Autoregressive distributed lag model. The paper's primary contribution is finding that in both the long run and short run, there is a direct link between energy consumption and economic growth.
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