علاقة استهلاك الطاقة و النمو الاقتصادي : مسح للدراسات التجريبية

Abstract EN

This research paper is a comprehensive summary of empirical studies that study the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth, where the relationship hypotheses can be summarized into four hypotheses : the neutrality hypothesis, the rationalization hypothesis, the growth hypothesis and the inverse feeding hypothesis.

the research paper has been divided into two parts, the first part studies the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth according to countries, while the second part is concerned with the same aspect for a group of countries.

the latter showed the multiple use of a set of standard econometrics models and the results of the studies varied from neutral to positive or negative results.