Energy consumption, governance quality and sustainable development Nexus: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
Energy consumption, governance quality and sustainable development Nexus: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
The objective of this paper is to empirically examine whether energy consumption and governance quality affect sustainable development in 17 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2018 using a simultaneous equation model (SEM). Empirical results provide evidence that control of corruption and the institutional or governance quality of are complementary and essential for energy consumption to have an indirect positive impact on sustainable development. The results also