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This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …
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indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates … convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in African countries, disaggregated into 11 … the contrary. As a policy implication, looking beyond income convergence can provide a concrete agenda for development …
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, the productivity growth is governed by the growth in technical progress. We also study about convergence in state level … and find a tendency of convergence in productivity growth though only states that are efficient remain on the production …
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results showed conditional convergence for the region from 1950 to 1975, and both absolute and conditional divergence from …
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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 …
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The aim of the paper is to investigate convergence tendencies in the SADC region and to determine whether the EPA …/EBAI policies between SADC and EU_27 member states will promote such convergence tendencies. The analyses of the EPA/ABAI policies … outcome will likely have negative or positive effects on economic growth and convergence tendencies of individual member …
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This study aims to examine the absolute and conditional convergence across the 27 EU Member States. To examine the … absolute β convergence was used Baumol model (1986) estimated by OLS and Panel Data, and to examine the absolute σ convergence … the Quah model (1993) by graphical analysis. Subsequently, we analyzed the conditional convergence, also estimated by OLS …
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using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net … assessment of socioeconomic convergence in terms of critical indicators of economic inequality, poverty ratios, literacy rate and …, statistically significant absolute and conditional Beta (β)-convergence in literacy rates and HDI have been observed but only …
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This paper focuses on three (marginal?) questions surrounding the analysis of economic convergence and uses Spanish … analysis are usually quite different in economic size, is the weighting of economic units relevant in convergence analysis? (ii …
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This paper studies the effects of allowing for heterogeneous slope coefficients in the Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) model, based on panel data for 193 EU-15 regions from 1980 to 2005. We first estimate the model using conventional pooled panel data estimators, based on data at five-year...
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