percent. Average productivity growth in EMDEs has picked up rapidly since 2000, renewing interest in the convergence … rate of convergence remains low, with current growth differentials halving the productivity gap only after over 100 years …. Behind the low average pace of convergence lies considerable diversity among groups of countries converging toward different …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … transmission from income to consumption inequality, which suggests the presence of powerful institutions that favor consumption …

incumbents. The analysis verifies that these shocks - which reduce consumption growth - are associated with worsening performance …

surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of … consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the … consumption measures remains an unmet challenge …