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Impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study explores the economic growth – energy consumption nexus for two samples of MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs) during the period 1980–2012. Using panel cointegration approach, we found strong evidence for ...
The Credit–Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between credit market development and economic growth for a heterogeneous panel of 20 developing and developed countries with varied growth experiences. The empirical ...
The environmental Kuznets curve relationship: a case study of the Gulf Cooperation Council region
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article)
By using panel data over the 1980?2017 period and two alternative indicators of environmental pollution (carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions), this paper investigates the validity of the environmental ...
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book)
Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ...
The asymmetric effects of oil price on economic growth in Turkey and Saudi Arabia: New evidence from nonlinear ARDL approach
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Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
, 2017 , Article)
The immediate purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the potential asymmetric oil price effects on real GDP growth in two different countries with differing dependence on oil from the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and ...
Bank concentration, institutional quality, and economic growth: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of institutional quality on the relationship between economic growth and banking sector concentration. Design/methodology/approach: The sample of our study covers 15 Middle ...
Renewable and non-renewable energy use - economic growth nexus: The case of MENA Net Oil Importing Countries
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article Review)
This study examines the energy use - economic growth nexus by disaggregating energy use into two types of energy, renewable and non-renewable energy use. Our sample consists of eleven MENA Net Oil Importing Countries (NOICs) ...
Testing the Kuznets Curve hypothesis for Qatar: A comparison between carbon dioxide and ecological footprint
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article Review)
This paper explores the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using two different environment indicators: the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and the ecological footprint (EF) in Qatar over the 1980-2011 period. ...
The middle east and North Africa: Cursed by natural resources?
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
The relationship between natural resource wealth and economic growth has been extensively studied. As opposed to basic intuition, the results of several empirical studies suggest that vast natural capital endowments don’t ...
The impact of energy consumption and economic development on Ecological Footprint and CO2 emissions: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Reducing the impact of air pollution and global environmental degradation on human health and quality of life for Qatari citizens represents the most important objective of the Qatar National vision 2030. With respect to ...