provided by the recent advances made in economic growth empirics. Although convergence is usually established in terms of Gross … periods of time, are identified as a force against convergence. After describing the distinction between conditional and non … conditional convergence, the paper considers the role played by the productive structure in establishing regional differences …

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – -convergence, σ-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence), to … countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the sample consisted …

focuses on the problem of suppose technology convergence (or divergence) among nations. The author implements and verifies the … hypothesis on β-convergence, as well as on the quantile convergence. The analysis is run for the sample consisted of 145 …

Coming from standard economic growth theory and empirical evidences, we concentrated on the convergence process as a … estimate a typology of the convergence process in the European area. Taking into account the existing differences among sectors … the strategies oriented to achieve a real convergence in EU and further in Adriatic-Balkans region. In this way, we can …

analysis for 1950-2007 for seven regions in the world, showing that for Latin America and the Caribbean convergence results … withstanding the negative effects of contractions and ‘bad’ at taking advantage of expansions to achieve convergence with the …