This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …

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 …

The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

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 …

The concept of convergence is extended to the human development index. Evidence of weak absolute convergence is found … over 1975-2002. The results are robust and verified by various conditional -convergence models and also supported by the … evidence of weak -convergence. Population weighted analyses provide support for polarization in the human development index …