Afonso, Óscar; Aguiar, Álvaro - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2004
(starting in the 50s, at the outset of industrialization) of the convergence in productivity of the Portuguese economy towards … the most developed European countries. In an econometric equation of conditional convergence over the XXth century …, openness has a positive effect in growth potential, and the rate of convergence increases with the share of investment goods in …