Output, renewable energy consumption and trade in Africa

Aïssa, Mohamed Safouane Ben; Jebli, Mehdi Ben; Youssef, Slim Ben

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.11.023

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“…We evaluate the current paper as a complementary to the one who was published by Ben Aïssa et al (2014). For a panel of 11 African countries, Ben Aïssa et al (2014) examine the dynamic interaction between economic growth, renewable energy consumption and trade using a production model. The finding of their analysis reveals that no dynamic causal relationship exists between renewable energy consumption and any other variables in both the short and the long-run.…”

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The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption and Trade: Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis for Sub‐Saharan Africa Countries

Jebli¹,

Youssef²,

Öztürk³

2015

African Development Review

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Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, this paper uses panel cointegration techniques to investigate the short and the long-run relationship between CO 2 emissions, economic growth, renewable energy consumption and trade openness for a panel of 24 Sub-Saharan Africa countries over the period 1980-2010. The validity of the EKC hypothesis has not been supported for these countries. Short-run Granger causality results reveal that there is a bidirectional causality between emissions and economic growth; bidirectional causality between emissions and real exports; unidirectional causality from real imports to emissions; and unidirectional causality runs from trade (exports or imports) to renewable energy consumption. There is an indirect short-run causality running from emissions to renewable energy and an indirect short-run causality from GDP to renewable energy. In the long-run, the error correction term is statistically significant for emissions, renewable energy consumption and trade openness. The long-run estimates suggest that real GDP per capita and real imports per capita both have a negative and statistically significant impact on per capita CO 2 emissions. The impact of the square of real GDP per capita and real exports per capita are both positive and statistically significant on per capita CO 2 emissions. For the model with imports, renewable energy consumption per capita has a positive impact on per capita emissions. One policy recommendation is that Sub-Saharan countries should expand their trade exchanges particularly with developed countries and try to maximize their benefit from technology transfer generated by such trade relations as this increases their renewable energy consumption.

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The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption and Trade: Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis for Sub‐Saharan Africa Countries

Jebli¹,

Youssef²,

Öztürk³

2015

African Development Review

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“…In addition, the literature shows that the correlation between energy consumption and growth is very robust and any deviations in the share of energy consumption are expected to have a strong impact on the advance of economic activities, while any decrease in the expansion of real GDP is expected to adversely affect energy consumption volatility (Apergis and Payne, [3], [4]; Apergis and Payne, [8]). However, energy consumption is connected to other economic activities, such international trade which is expected to have a positive impact on economic growth (Al-Mulali et al, [2]; Ben Aïssa et al, [12]). In fact, energy consumption is increasing rapidly worldwide.…”

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“…The third hypothesis is also unidirectional, but this time is running from economic growth to renewable energy consumption, the so called the conservation hypothesis (Menyah and Wolde-Rufael, [31]). Finally, the neutrality hypothesis argues that there is no causal link between economic growth and renewable energy consumption (Ben Aïssa et al, [12]; Menegaki, [30]; Payne, [36]). These hypotheses discuss the direction of causality either in the short-or in the longrun.…”

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The dynamic interaction between combustible renewables and waste consumption and international tourism: the case of Tunisia

Jebli

Youssef

Apergis

2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This paper employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds methodological approach to investigate the relationship between economic growth, combustible renewables and waste consumption, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and international tourism for the case of Tunisia spanning the period 1990-2010. The results from the Fisher statistic of both the Wald-test and the Johansen test confirm the presence of a long-run relationship among the variables under investigation. The stability of estimated parameters has been tested, while Granger causality tests recommend a short-run unidirectional causality running from economic growth and combustible renewables and waste consumption to CO 2 emissions, a bidirectional causality between economic growth and combustible renewables and waste consumption and unidirectional causality running from economic growth and combustible renewables and waste consumption to international tourism. In the long-run, the error correction terms confirm the presence of bidirectional causality relationships between economic growth, CO 2 emissions, combustible renewables and waste consumption and international tourism. Our long-run estimates show that combustible renewables and waste consumption increases international tourism, and both renewables and waste consumption and international tourism increase CO 2 emissions and output. We recommend that: (i) Tunisia should use more combustible renewables and waste energy as this eliminates wastes from especially tourist zones and increases the number of tourist arrivals, leading to economic growth, and (ii) a fraction of this economic growth generated by the increase in combustible renewables and waste consumption should be invested in clean renewable energy production (i.e., solar, wind, geothermal) and energy efficiency projects.

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“…The availability of qualified and resourceful human capital is paramount to the capacity building process in the renewable energy sector (Aïssa et al, 2014;Eder et al, 2015). African countries are far lacking in this area.…”

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Advanced Education and Training Programs to Support Renewable Energy Investment in Africa

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International Journal of Education and Practice

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Output, renewable energy consumption and trade in Africa

Cited by 223 publications

References 18 publications

The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption and Trade: Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis for Sub‐Saharan Africa Countries

The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption and Trade: Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis for Sub‐Saharan Africa Countries

The dynamic interaction between combustible renewables and waste consumption and international tourism: the case of Tunisia

Advanced Education and Training Programs to Support Renewable Energy Investment in Africa

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