Electricity Trade and Economic Growth in South Africa

Exports, Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Improving the electricity efficiency in South Africa through a benchmark-and- trade system

South Africa has undergone major political, social and economic changes during the past two decades. Partially, as a result of these, the country has begun to experience serious electricity supply shortages [1] and critical energy predicaments. The electricity crisis in 2008 was, among others, attributed to the mismatch between the supply and the demand for electricity and affected the whole ec...

Electricity consumption and economic growth in India

This paper tries to examine the Granger causality between electricity consumption per capita and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for India using annual data covering the period 1950–51 to 1996–97. Phillips–Perron tests reveal that both the series, after logarithmic transformation, are non-stationary and individually integrated of order one. This study finds the absence of long-run equil...

The effects of Internet usage, financial development and trade openness on economic growth in South Africa: A time series analysis

This study estimates the effects of Internet usage, financial development and trade openness on economic growth using annual time series data for South Africa for the period 1991-2013. Structural unit root test and Johansen and ARDL cointegration tests are performed to examine the long run relationship amongst Internet usage, financial development, trade openness and economic growth. Findings f...

The Nexus between Economic Growth and Intra-Industry Trade

According to traditional trade theories, foreign trade affects economic growth via several channels such as knowledge and technology spillover, improvement of resources allocation, increasing productivity and competitiveness. Within the framework of new trade theories, the effect of foreign trade on economic growth is ambiguous, and this effect depends on the combination of the different effect...