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Motivated by the gained momentum of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) under the umbrella of the United Nations organization, in the light of the SDG‐7, which stipulates the access to affordable, sustainable, and modern energy, this paper explores the dynamic relationship between renewable energy and the pillars of sustainable development. Its insights are driven using a simultaneous equation model based on a panel of 25 African economies covering the period 1990–2014. The results show that renewable energy is important for sustainable development and that higher levels of renewable energy can increase sustainability. The findings also confirm the positive influence of renewable energy on the economic, environmental, social, and institutional dimensions. These positive effects stem from investment in clean energy in the whole of Africa, combined with structural changes promoting the use of clean energy and the achievement of the millennium development goals. The findings should be useful for policymakers in Africa. Aggressive renewable energy policies will be crucial for achieving energy‐policy goals and the "multiple benefits" of renewable energy, such as reducing climate change and air pollution, improving energy security, and increasing access to energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate a modified version of the environmental Kuznets curve by including human development and governance as a macroeconomics determinant of sustainability. For this purpose, our study uses the Johansen panel cointegration testing to verify the existence of long-run relationships and we employed the fixed effects models which founded on the panel-based error correction ones using data for 26 African countries over the period 1990–2013. Our findings highlight that there exists a quadratic relationship among the negative genuine saving (GS−) and the human development variable. This implies that the assumed EKC hypothesis is verified for the modified version of EKC. The empirical evidence records the fact that the ecological issue in the Millennium Development Goals background is deeply influenced by the sustainability aspects. Further, our findings recommended that African countries should take seriously the human aspect. Further, the academic researchers, policymakers, and international organizations should unify around a specific and clear definition of the sustainability notion to reach a verdict consensus about his measure and the way of computing by taking into consideration the diversity and the specificities of each region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the paper is to investigate the effect of the exchange rate, exports, and domestic investment by adopting a comparative approach between the ECM and ARDL procedure for the case of the Tunisian economy during the period of study1966-2017. Our insights of Error Correction Model recorded that the Domestic Investment and Exports have a negative impact on Exchange Rate. In accordance with the highlights of the ARDL model. Understanding these controversial nexus seems to be vitality, especially, for this current critical situation of the Tunisian economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of openness, foreign investment inflows, and domestic investment on economic growth for the case of 24 Asian economies over the time span 2002-2017 through the use of the fixed and random effect models. Our empirical results pointed out that domestic investment positively influences economic growth. However, we found that foreign direct investment and exports are negatively affecting the growth path. Also, the population, imports, and final consumption expenditure have no real impact on economic growth. Due to the importance of the positive externalities linked to the trade openness and foreign direct investments inflow, in terms of technology transfer bias, financial capacities, human expertise, large markets size, and spillover effect added to the domestic capacities and the national investment, the pace of the phenomenal economic performance of the Asian economies is very well justified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]