convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

development of South Africa?s largest cities. Our local economic growth empirics show some indications of conditional convergence … convergence was found but this was driven by declines in the standard deviation of per capita income amongst the poorest quintile … of towns. An estimate of conditional beta convergence of 1.2 percent over the period 1990-2000 confirms that overall …

convergence in the two economies. This is the first of its kind. The paper presents a detailed examination of economic growth in … countries and investigates whether there is any evidence of regional convergence during the period of rapid economic growth. It …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence …