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29 Citations
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10 Pages

This paper investigates the interaction between stock prices and real exchange rates by applying monthly data from Turkey for the period between January 2001 and September 2016. This study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and the...

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  • Open Access
113 Citations
10,056 Views
14 Pages

Utilizing natural resources wisely, reducing pollution, and taking other environmental factors into account are now critical to the prospects for long-term economic growth and, by extension, sustainable development. We investigate the impact of total...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interdisciplinary Empirical Research in Financial Econometrics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,859 Views
26 Pages

Public Education Expenditure and Economic Growth in Egypt: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

  • Amr M. Elseraty,
  • Ali A. Kammoun,
  • Mohamed A. M. Sallam,
  • Mousa G. Selmey and ,
  • Yasser Ghallab,
  • Ahmad Shaheen and
  • Mustafa A. Radwan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 September 2026

The relationship between public education spending and economic growth remains contested in developing economies, where quality, not just quantity, of investment may matter most. This study examines whether public education expenditure has driven eco...

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  • Open Access
602 Views
35 Pages

Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation, and Growth Dynamics in Morocco: An ARDL Bounds-Testing Analysis

  • Anass Arbia,
  • Hamza Ayass,
  • Fatima Zahra Belarbi,
  • Somia Ghrara and
  • Amal Bouzid

4 September 2026

The existing empirical literature on Morocco has examined FDI and economic growth, taxation and growth, and taxation and FDI separately. This study addresses this gap by investigating taxation’s moderating role in the FDI–growth nexus usi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Policy (3rd Edition))
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  • Open Access
123 Citations
9,080 Views
17 Pages

Geopolitical Risk and Energy Transition in Russia: Evidence from ARDL Bounds Testing Method

  • Ehsan Rasoulinezhad,
  • Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary,
  • Jinsok Sung and
  • Nisit Panthamit

30 March 2020

One of the current debatable global problems is climate change or global warming as crucial geopolitical risks. The progress of energy transition by considering geopolitical risk has not been considered seriously yet. This paper contributes to the li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geopolitical Risk in Emerging Economies)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
689 Views
22 Pages

This paper evaluates the macroeconomic and financial determinants of the money demand of India from 1996: Q1 to 2024: Q4. The paper utilizes the Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) bounds testing framework and an Error Correction Model (ECM) to es...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Macroeconometric Modeling and Time Series Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,951 Views
18 Pages

High dependency on traditional primary agricultural commodities and recurrent world market price fluctuations had exposed Ethiopia to foreign earnings instability. To reduce the high dependence on primary agricultural commodities and the associated v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marketing Strategies of the Horticultural Production Chain)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,706 Views
16 Pages

Energy–Finance–Growth Nexus in ASEAN-5 Countries: An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

  • Masnun Mahi,
  • Seuk Wai Phoong,
  • Izlin Ismail and
  • Che Ruhana Isa

18 December 2019

This study examines the relationship between energy consumption, financial development and economic growth for ASEAN-5 countries, namely Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, over the period from 1980 to 2017. Finance–gr...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
191 Citations
43,310 Views
16 Pages

18 October 2019

A vast number of the energy-growth nexus researchers, as well as other “X-variable-growth nexus” studies, such as for example the tourism-growth nexus, the environment-growth nexus or the food-growth nexus have used the autoregressive dis...

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  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,595 Views
17 Pages

Short and Long-Run Causal Effects of CO2 Emissions, Energy Use, GDP and Population Growth: Evidence from India Using the ARDL and VECM Approaches

  • Duraisamy Pachiyappan,
  • Yasmeen Ansari,
  • Md Shabbir Alam,
  • Prabha Thoudam and ,
  • Kuppusamy Alagirisamy and
  • Palanisamy Manigandan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 December 2021

This paper investigates the nexus between CO2 emissions (CO2E), GDP, energy use (ENU), and population growth (PG) in India from 1980–2018 by comparing the “vector error correction” model (VECM) and “auto regressive distributed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Policy for a Sustainable Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,676 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2022

The key goal of this research was to figure out the short and long run relationship between environmental degradation caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and energy consumption, the level of GDP economic growth, and urbanization in the Visegrad...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Economics and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
49 Citations
20,207 Views
17 Pages

This paper investigates the causal links between domestic capital investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), and economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period 1970–2015 by using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing to cointegr...

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  • Open Access
1,151 Views
24 Pages

Monetary Policy, Income Inequality, and Sustainable Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: An ARDL Analysis of the Moderating Role of Inequality Under Vision 2030

  • Mohamed Bennaceur,
  • Houcine Benlaria,
  • Zanane Reda,
  • Randa Abd Elhamied Mohammed Hamza and ,
  • Khaldah Abdallah Mohammed Esawi,
  • Mohamed Djafar Henni,
  • Mona Elshaabany and
  • Mousa Gowfal Selmey
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 June 2026

This study examines how income inequality conditions the effectiveness of monetary policy in delivering sustainable economic growth in Saudi Arabia over 1980–2024, a question of direct relevance to the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 agenda and to...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,804 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2016

This paper examines the relationship between stock market evolution and sustainable economic growth in Nigeria. The study employs Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)-bounds testing approach and a combined stock market indicators index to examine t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,273 Views
19 Pages

13 April 2023

This empirical study investigates the dynamic interconnection between fossil fuel consumption, alternative energy consumption, economic growth and carbon emissions in China over the 1981 to 2020 time period within a multivariate framework. The long-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blue and Green Hydrogen Production)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,175 Views
32 Pages

The Relationship Between Environmental Sustainability, Economic Growth, and the Creation of Green Jobs in Saudi Arabia

  • Houcine Benlaria,
  • Naïma Sadaoui,
  • Badreldin Mohamed Ahmed Abdulrahman,
  • Balsam Saeed Abdelrhman and ,
  • Taha Khairy Taha Ibrahim,
  • Abdullah A. Aljofi and
  • Mohamed Djafar Henni
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 May 2026

This study examines the long- and short-run determinants of green employment in Saudi Arabia over the period 1990–2024 using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing framework within an error-correction model. Six macroeconomic a...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,352 Views
17 Pages

Analysis on Bioeconomy’s Contribution to GDP: Evidence from Japan

  • Xuezhou Wen,
  • Daniel Quacoe,
  • Dinah Quacoe,
  • Kingsley Appiah and
  • Bertha Ada Danso

29 January 2019

This study analyzes seven bioeconomy sectors with the aim of establishing the leading contributing sectors to gross domestic product (GDP), and also determines the future relationship between bioeconomy and the national economy in Japan. We use data...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,302 Views
22 Pages

The current health crisis has several socioeconomic influences that could be compared to those experienced during the 2008 economic and financial crisis. Governments around the world are making great efforts to sustain markets as there are signs show...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
14,859 Views
14 Pages

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impacts of some prominent macroeconomic factors on the Turkish Stock Market index, BIST-100 (Borsa Istanbul-100). For centuries, and mostly since the 20th century, stock markets are at the heart of economie...

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  • Open Access
107 Views
27 Pages

Energy Transition, Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment: Unveiling the Renewable–Non-Renewable Energy Nexus in Saudi Arabia Using an ARDL Approach

  • Badreldin Mohamed Ahmed Abdulrahman,
  • Hounaida Daly,
  • Rana Sulaiman Alogaily,
  • Yousif Saeed Ahmed Amin and ,
  • Abderhim Elshazali Yahia Abdallah,
  • Saeed Hassan Elaageb Hasab Elkarim,
  • Anis Sahbani and
  • Ahmed Emara
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 November 2026

Whether renewable energy is reshaping the growth model of hydrocarbon exporters is central to sustainable development and Sustainable Development Goal 7. We examine interactions among renewable-energy consumption (REC), non-renewable energy consumpti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Growth, Policy and Transitions to Green Economy and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,110 Views
21 Pages

27 January 2023

This study examines the cointegration and short- and long-run causal relationships between economic growth and CO2 emissions, fuel consumption and the amount of freight transported by road transport in the Visegrad Group countries between 1990 and 20...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,947 Views
19 Pages

Currently, global value chains (GVCs) are increasingly shaping the global economy, covering a growing share of international trade, GDP, and employment globally. Global trade is impacted by the emergence of GVCs in areas as diverse as commodities, el...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accounting, International Finance, and Economic Development with Applications)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,934 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2024

It is well established that financial development and innovation promote economic growth through improving the allocation of capital, enhancing risk management, contributing to price discovery, and increasing market efficiencies. While a vast empiric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies on Factors Affecting Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
17,133 Views
14 Pages

Agriculture as a Determinant of Zambian Economic Sustainability

  • Joseph Phiri,
  • Karel Malec,
  • Socrates Kraido Majune,
  • Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi and ,
  • Zdeňka Gebeltová,
  • Mansoor Maitah,
  • Kamil Maitah and
  • Kamal Tasiu Abdullahi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2020

For several years, the Zambian economy relied on the mining sector, which has been affected by fluctuations in commodity prices. The new century enhanced the calls for economic diversification, with the agricultural, manufacturing, and services secto...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Development of Rural Areas and Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
1,544 Views
22 Pages

14 February 2026

This study analyzes the determinants of gross saving in Jordan over the period 1991–2023, with particular attention paid to the role of macroeconomic and demographic factors in shaping saving behavior. The empirical analysis employs the Autoreg...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic Development)
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  • Open Access
684 Views
19 Pages

Economic Growth, Service Sector, and Urbanization Effects on Environmental Degradation in Uzbekistan: Evidence from ARDL Analysis

  • Firuza Achilova,
  • Nurbek Rizaev,
  • Fozil Xolmurotov,
  • Ergash Ibadullaev and ,
  • Xadicha Rashidova,
  • Dilshodbek Salaev and
  • Dilshod Hudayberganov
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability remains a serious challenge for many transition economies. This study analyzes the relationship between economic growth, service sector expansion, urbanization, and environmental degradation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economics for a Low Carbon Future: Renewable Energy, Pollution Abatement and Policy Effectiveness)
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  • Open Access
471 Views
23 Pages

Financial innovation is recognized as a major catalyst of long-term economic progress. The main aim of this study is to analyze the nexus between financial innovation and economic growth in Bangladesh. While financial innovation plays a crucial role,...

(This article belongs to the Section Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,987 Views
21 Pages

Services as a Determinant of Botswana’s Economic Sustainability

  • Joseph Phiri,
  • Karel Malec,
  • Aubrey Sakala,
  • Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi and ,
  • Pavel Činčera,
  • Mansoor Maitah,
  • Zdeňka Gebeltová and
  • Cathy-Austin Otekhile
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

In 2015, the services sector contributed about 58 percent to the gross domestic product (GDP) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which was a significant increase from the 47.6 percent observed in 2005, and a shift from the mining, agriculture, and manufact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development in Human Environment—Current and Future Challenges)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,929 Views
19 Pages

Agricultural Value Added, Renewable Energy, and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence from Turkey

  • Neslihan Koç,
  • Özgür Emre Koç,
  • Florina Oana Virlanuta,
  • Orhan Orçun Bıtrak and ,
  • Uğur Çiçek,
  • Radu Octavian Kovacs,
  • Valentina-Alina Vasile (Dobrea) and
  • Tincuta Vrabie
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 June 2025

In this study, the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions for the period 1968–2022 in Turkey was evaluated within the framework of the EKC (Environmental Kuznets Curve) hypothesis. In addition, the impacts of renewable energy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Sustainability and Energy Economy)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
27,198 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2021

The paper features an examination of the link between the behaviour of the FTSE 100 and S&P500 Indexes in both an autoregressive distributed lag ARDL, plus a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag NARDL framework. The attraction of NARDL is tha...

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  • Open Access
84 Views
27 Pages

3 November 2026

The shift toward renewable energy is a priority for many countries seeking to mitigate climate change, support sustainable economic growth, and enhance energy security. This study examines the relationships between fossil fuel energy consumption, ren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economics for a Low Carbon Future: Renewable Energy, Pollution Abatement and Policy Effectiveness)
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  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,826 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Agriculture and Energy on CO2 Emissions in Zambia

  • Joseph Phiri,
  • Karel Malec,
  • Alpo Kapuka,
  • Mansoor Maitah and ,
  • Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi,
  • Zdeňka Gebeltová,
  • Mwila Bowa and
  • Kamil Maitah
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 December 2021

The world has experienced increased impacts of anthropogenic global warming due to increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which include carbon dioxide (CO2). Anthropogenic activities that contribute to CO2 emissions include deforestation, us...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
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  • Open Access
1,000 Views
28 Pages

12 August 2026

This study investigates the impact of real effective exchange rate (REER) volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in three major Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies—Hungary, Poland, and Romania—using quarterly data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Policy (3rd Edition))
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  • Open Access
1,761 Views
19 Pages

6 September 2025

Agricultural trade not only facilitates the exchange of final products but also leads to the indirect transfer of arable land resources involved in their production processes across countries. These indirect flows are commonly referred to in the lite...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Management and Sustainable Agricultural Production)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,105 Views
17 Pages

ARDL Bound Testing Approach for a Green Low-Carbon Circular Economy in Turkey

  • Irfan Kadioglu,
  • Ozlem Turan and
  • Ismail Bulent Gurbuz

19 March 2025

This study analyzes Turkey’s development toward a green economy between 1990 and 2022 within the framework of certain green economic indicators. The data consist of secondary data from the official databases of the World Bank and the Turkish St...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,532 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2020

This study examines the impact of the Khartoum Stock Exchange market performance on economic growth in Sudan from Q1 1995 to Q4 2018. The data were collected from the Central Bank of Sudan (CBS) and Khartoum Stock Exchange (KSE). The autoregressive d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asset Pricing, Investment, and Trading Strategies)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,780 Views
19 Pages

Nexus between Nitrous Oxide Emissions and Agricultural Land Use in Agrarian Economy: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

  • Azad Haider,
  • Muhammad Iftikhar ul Husnain,
  • Wimal Rankaduwa and
  • Farzana Shaheen

5 March 2021

This paper analyses the relationship between Nitrous Oxide emissions, agricultural land use, and economic growth in Pakistan. Agriculture largely contributes to Nitrous Oxide emissions. Hence, models of agriculture induced Nitrous Oxide emissions are...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,355 Views
16 Pages

Does Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Stimulate Economic Growth in Pakistan? An Application of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL Bounds) Testing Approach

  • Muhammad Salman Ahmad,
  • Elżbieta Izabela Szczepankiewicz,
  • Dai Yonghong,
  • Farid Ullah and ,
  • Ihsan Ullah and
  • Windham Eugene Loopesco
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 March 2022

The objective of this paper is to ascertain the impact of Chinese FDI on economic growth in Pakistan. This study documents the exploration of the determinants of economic growth in Pakistan by emphasizing the significant role played by Chinese FDI an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Policy for a Sustainable Economic Growth)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,943 Views
15 Pages

The nexus between Information Communication Technology (ICT) and stock market development has been predominantly based on studies of the developed markets and high-income economies of the world. The objective of this study was to examine the causal r...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,812 Views
19 Pages

23 August 2024

This study investigated the interplay between exchange rate volatility, inflation rates, and real interest rates on Zambia’s economic growth from 1992 to 2022, utilizing annualized time series data. The study was necessitated by the limited pub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exchange Rates: Drivers, Dynamics, Impacts, and Policies)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,166 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2021

Rapid urbanization, coupled with income growth, will inevitably cause the residential energy consumption in the North Africa region to continue to increase, with adverse effects on the climate, human health, and the economy. In these regards, this pa...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
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  • Open Access
76 Citations
7,708 Views
16 Pages

Revising the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Deforestation: An Empirical Study for Bulgaria

  • Stavros Tsiantikoudis,
  • Eleni Zafeiriou,
  • Grigorios Kyriakopoulos and
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis

12 August 2019

The evolution of human societies along with efforts to enhance economic welfare may well lead to the deterioration of the environment. Deforestation is a usual process throughout evolution that poses pressing and potentially irreversible environmenta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education, Communication and Decision Making on Renewable and Sustainable Energy)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,298 Views
23 Pages

6 December 2019

This study aims to explore the casual relationship between agricultural production, economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Pakistan. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is applied to examine the relationship between agricultural p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Emission Reduction—Carbon Tax, Carbon Trading, and Carbon Offset)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,811 Views
12 Pages

26 July 2021

The financial sector is divided into two broad categories: equity and banking markets. The healthy functioning of these sectors plays an imperative role in any economy. This study aimed to examine the short- and long-term relationship between the Isl...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
10,137 Views
15 Pages

26 July 2021

Agricultural trade significantly promotes the economic boom in developing countries. Extensive traditional agricultural production methods have increased the pressure on the agricultural environment by expanding agricultural trade, which has attracte...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,239 Views
18 Pages

Sustainable Energy Development in Saudi Arabia

  • Mounir Belloumi and
  • Atef Saad Alshehry

27 April 2015

The main objective of this research is to study the role of energy consumption in economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period of 1971–2012 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration procedure, and based on neoclassical growth,...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,819 Views
16 Pages

21 December 2023

According to the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS), Bangladesh aims to achieve a 100% financial inclusion target by 2026 through mobile financing services (MFSs). However, despite several efforts, the financial inclusion score remained onl...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,747 Views
16 Pages

15 August 2023

This paper explores the impact of investment and employment on Egypt’s agricultural growth during the period 1991 to 2021 using annual time series data. We use the ARDL approach to examine the long-run and short-run relationships among agricult...

(This article belongs to the Collection Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,015 Views
44 Pages

12 August 2025

Water, an indispensable resource for life and not a complete substitute, is indispensable for energy production, industry, agriculture, and ecosystem sustainability. In particular, the limited and unequal distribution of freshwater reserves makes wat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Resources, Economic Development and Environment Carrying Capacity)
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  • Open Access
69 Citations
5,528 Views
14 Pages

Linking Economic Growth, Urbanization, and Environmental Degradation in China: What Is the Role of Hydroelectricity Consumption?

  • Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo,
  • Mary Oluwatoyin Agboola,
  • Husam Rjoub,
  • Ibrahim Adeshola and ,
  • Ephraim Bonah Agyekum and
  • Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Achieving environmental sustainability has become a global initiative whilst addressing climate change and its effects. Thus, this research re-assessed the EKC hypothesis in China and considered the effect of hydroelectricity use and urbanization, ut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Impact Assessment by Green Processes)

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