Clean energy-growth nexus in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-sectionally dependent heterogeneous panel with structural breaks

Mahamat Hamit-Haggar (1)

1 CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International

This paperexaminestheexistenceandnatureofacausalityrelationshipbetweencleanenergycon- sumption andeconomicgrowthforapanelofelevensub-SaharanAfricancountriesovertheperiod 1971–2007.Weapplythepanelunitroottestthataccountsforthepresenceofmultiplestructuralbreaks [13] and thenewly-developedpanelcointegrationmethodologywhichallowsforcross-sectiondepen- dence andmultiplestructuralbreaks [38] as wellasabootstrap-correctedGrangercausalitytest.The estimation resultsshowthatthereiscointegrationbetweencleanenergyconsumptionandeconomic growth.Further,theresultsfromthepanelcausalitytestsindicatethatthereisindeedaunidirectional Grangercausal flowfromcleanenergyconsumptiontoeconomicgrowth

Mots clés: Clean energy Output growth Cross-sectional dependence Structuralbreaks Bootstrapped Causality

Domaines: Economies et finances

Mahamat Hamit-Haggar. Clean energy-growth nexus in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-sectionally dependent heterogeneous panel with structural breaks. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, 57, pp.1237 - 1244. ⟨10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.161⟩. ⟨hal-01687491⟩