“…With regards to the endogenous growth theory, there are several numbers of variables that are significantly correlated with growth regression models, including but not limited to initial level of income, investment rate, various measures of education and certain policy indicators [37,38]. Furthermore, based on the work of Aziz and Dahalan [25], Donayre and Wilmot [22], and Nusair [10], it is apparent that oil price also plays an important role in the determination of the economic growth of net oil-exporting countries. In line with that, the following multivariate specification is employed, as inspired by the growth regression model, which is broadly similar to Levine and Renelt [39], Campos [40], and Azman-Saini et al [41], with the addition of oil price as an explanatory variable:…”