Nunes, Ricardo Da Costa; Nunes, Selene Peres Peres - In: Revista de Economía y Estadística XLII (2004) 2, pp. 89-103
The article intends to verify the existence of absolute income per capita convergence of Brazilian states from 1937 to 1999. Using Barro & Salai- Martin (1992)'s estimation methodology, it proceeds the analysis of ß convergence (inverse relation between initial PIB and economic growth rate) and...