to the concepts of ƒã- and ƒÒ-convergence and emphasizes the importance of including spatial effects and a disaggregated … analysis at a sectoral level. We detect a significant -convergence only in aggregate labor productivity and in the services … sectors among peripheral regions. We also show that omitting spatial effects leads to biased measures of -convergence. We then …

participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …

This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …

framework, namely, convergence, identifications of growth determinants and factors responsible of growth differences in the data …, the primary focus of this paper is on the last two. Since the use of econometrics was originally motivated by convergence …

the long term growth rate and in the process of economic convergence between the states of Mexico, the present study … focused on the regional economic convergence process in Mexico, and the effects of economic openess. …

This paper analyses growth and convergence on sugarcane industry in southeast Asia countries. Important questions in … this paper are whether the growth of sugar cane industry in Southeast Asia moves toward a convergence or divergence trend …, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, The Philippines, and Vietnam. The finding suggests that based on ƒÒ convergence approach …