The paper proposes a poverty reduction index demonstrating that the selection of growth policies should be to maximize the sum of income and inequality effects. The empirical results indicate that economic growth in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between 1985 and 2001 was effective in...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic growth in China for the period 1977–2011. Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach (ARDL) to cointegration and Johansen cointegration techniques are employed by including intermittent...

This paper is an effort to investigate claims concerning Granger causality relationship from energy consumption to economic growth in South Africa. We adopt a nonparametric bootstrap method to reassess evidence supporting Granger causality and unravel findings of long-run unidirectional...