The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysis with the aim of reviewing … the econometric approaches for testing spatial effects in convergence process related to both cross sectional and panel … regional convergence in Europe that cannot be adequately captured by the non-spatial growth regression models that have …

Whether food demand is "converging" is tested in two ways. First, the convergence of food expenditures among 18 high …-income countries is examined from 1990 to 2004. Convergence is apparent in total expenditures, cereals, and meats, even after …

This paper examines the existence of convergence and distribution dynamics of food price inflation rates within the … largely differences and developments in market conditions and structures. Traditional measures and approaches to β-convergence … and σ-convergence, fail to capture sufficiently the evolving distributional dynamics. The latter includes possible …

productivity growth rate. TFP growth decomposition ultimately allows attributing observed productivity performance to convergence … those factors that favour or hinder regional agricultural TFP growth convergence. Of major relevance is whether regions …

European objectives and instruments for the cohesion (Structural funds and the Cohesion fund) on the convergence of the Country … with the European parameters. The results obtained show a slow evidence of economic convergence but also the emergence and …