出版社:The Economics and Social Development Organization (TESDO)
摘要:This article analyses energy intensity for panel of six Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Arabia Saudi and Emirats Arab, over the period 1980 to 2012. It is based on panel data econometrics heterogeneous according to cointegration tests developed by Pedroni and the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator of Pesaran. The results show that energy intensity of GDP in MENA depends largely on the level of investment, the structure of economies and urbanization.