The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only … one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are … adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it is” (the Halcyon days of the 1870-1913, and the record of the last two …

participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the …

the long term growth rate and in the process of economic convergence between the states of Mexico, the present study … growth theory and in particular by some of the recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field. The study is … focused on the regional economic convergence process in Mexico, and the effects of economic openess. …

In this paper we outline (i) why ó-convergence may not accompany â- convergence, (ii)cite evidence of â-convergence in … the U.S., (iii) and use USA county-level data containing over 3,000 cross-sectional observations to demonstrate that ó-convergence …

We use county data with 3,058 observations to study growth and convergence in the US. We assess the effect of 40 … convergence rates around 2 percent, but 3SLS yields 6–8 percent; (2) convergence rates vary across the U.S. E.g., Southern …

This research develops a theory about the role of within-country income inequality leading to overtaking in economic … performance among countries. The theory captures two opposing effects of inequality on factor accumulation and suggests that the …. It is also shown that divergence or convergence may arise instead of overtaking, depending on the initial levels of …

Europa. This paper applies the regional convergence hypothesis of economic growth based on the neoclassical model. During the … period 1970-2000, Mexico shows state convergence in per capita income conditional on the fundamental human capital variables …

participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the …

. However, from this growth accounting exercise, we do find that there is convergence in statistical terms of efficiency changes …