{"658746":{"#nid":"658746","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Thomas Co-authors Article on Energy Use, Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/valerie-thomas\u0022\u003EValerie Thomas\u003C\/a\u003E, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy, co-authored a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32479\/ijeep.11472\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E that was published in the \u003Cem\u003EInternational Journal of Energy Economics and Policy\u003C\/em\u003E. The piece is titled \u0026ldquo;The Statistical Relationship Between Economic Growth and Total Energy Use: Evidence from Panel Co-Integration and Granger-Causality Investigation of SSA Countries.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn it, Thomas and her co-authors analyze the relationship between economic growth and energy use in sub-Saharan Africa. They run a number of tests on data collected between 1989 and 2017 and find a causal relationship between the two variables.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The results suggest that economic growth in SSA can be supported by promoting growth in productivity of the energy industries,\u0026rdquo; the authors write.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32479\/ijeep.11472\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.32479\/ijeep.11472\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe paper was published in the \u0026quot;International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The paper was published in the \u0022International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy.\u0022"}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-06-08 13:19:24","changed_gmt":"2022-06-08 13:21:36","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604216":{"id":"604216","type":"image","title":"Valerie Thomas","body":null,"created":"1522076193","gmt_created":"2018-03-26 14:56:33","changed":"1522076193","gmt_changed":"2018-03-26 14:56:33","alt":"Valerie Thomas","file":{"fid":"230317","name":"valeriethomas.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valeriethomas_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valeriethomas_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48938,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/valeriethomas_0.jpg?itok=N4wJ1GEQ"}}},"media_ids":["604216"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}