658746 news 1654694364 1654694496 <![CDATA[Thomas Co-authors Article on Energy Use, Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa]]> Professor Valerie Thomas, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy, co-authored a paper that was published in the International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy. The piece is titled “The Statistical Relationship Between Economic Growth and Total Energy Use: Evidence from Panel Co-Integration and Granger-Causality Investigation of SSA Countries.”

In 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.

“The results suggest that economic growth in SSA can be supported by promoting growth in productivity of the energy industries,” the authors write.

Read the full article at https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11472.

]]> 2022-06-08T00:00:00-04:00 The paper was published in the "International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy."

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