school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether …

This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in labour productivity … determinants of productivity. Furthermore, higher enrolments in high schools not only contribute to higher labour productivity but … also to higher growth in productivity. In addition, states that have higher high school enrolment rates have been enjoying …

Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing …

The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … and socio-economic data is used to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of …

growth, and redistributive (transfer) programmes. This paper proposes twin concepts and measures of convergence (κ*) and … pseudo-convergence (pseudo-κ*) to characterize such outcomes. Unlike the conventional measures of convergence, they can …