global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a … perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin … peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theo- retical problems …

underway, in contrast with the substantial progress that has taken place during the nineties. Regional convergence is also … hindered convergence among the countries of the Eurozone. On the one hand, there is wide agreement on the fact that asymmetric … support for convergence is fading away after the EMU was initiated in 1999. A process of divergence in per capita GDP is …

productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

, convergence, and the political economy of corporate governance codes. …

studies have investigated such convergence dynamics for public environmental policies, their results have been based …

Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … regional growth that draws on the regional Kuznets curve and incorporates aspects of cumulative causation and neoclassical … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has … guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth—both empirical and theoretical …—distinguish from previous work in three distinct ways:1. An explicit focus on cross-country growth and development experiences; 2 …

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …