
The nexus between energy consumption, economic growth and urbanization was analyzed for a panel of twenty-one Latin American and Caribbean countries over a period from 1980-2014. The Panel Data Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) was used in order to analyze the relationship among all variables. The results indicated that there is a unidirectional relationship between urbanization and energy consumption, and a bidirectional nexus among economic growth and energy consumption in Latin America and Caribbean region.
Authors: Matheus Koengkan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22408/reva22201761202-219
Publish Year: 2017