“…The feedback hypothesis was found in a number of countries and regions such as Southeast Asian countries: Malawi [40], Malaysia [79], China [88,42,77,90] Taiwan [85], Bangladesh [3], Pakistan [72], in ten South east Asian countries [26], and South Korea [54,35]; in African countries such as Algeria [25], Burkina Faso [58], Tunisia [23], West African states [59], South Africa [56] and Nigeria [30]; in European countries such as Poland [36], Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain and Turkey [33], Portugal [71], Eurasian countries [7,9] and Russia [89]; in Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon [29] and the entire Middle East [53]. In addition, this relationship was also found in the Americas [15,69], Barbados [47], Pacific Island countries [48], in different developed and developing countries [11][12][13]17], emerging countries [16], and the OECD countries [10,27].…”