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Economic convergence: a regional and subregional view Manuel Pérez Montiel Gislaine Cristina de Souza Rech Judite … Sanson de Bem The study of economic convergence among nations is based on the initial work of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991 …), a topic of spatial econometric analysis Recently, research on economic convergence have been directed towards smaller …
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This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of income and its evolution over that past three to four decades. Our methodological approach is twofold. First, we formally test for the number of modes in a cross-sectional analysis where each country is...
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We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the period between 1985 and 2002. The results?based initially on time-series and then on panel time-series data and analysis, and robust for different estimators and financial...
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We conduct an empirical study on how 22 donors allocate their bilateral aid among 147 recipient countries over the 1970-2004 period to investigate whether recent changes in the international aid architecture-at the international and country level-have led to changes in donor behavior. We find...
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the latter is, however, bounded and can be viewed as convergence to a biologically determined upper limit. …
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Entrepreneurship is crucial for the economic development of a region. Using entropy, cluster and shift-share analysis techniques, the authors present a detailed picture of the entrepreneurial milieu of the Sud Muntenia region of Romania, pointing both towards the presence of an overall...
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The paper aims to assess the evolution of the development disparities (output, employment, overall and by sectors) in the regions and counties of Romania. Using classic and spatial shift-share analysis tools, we investigate the extent to which the existing interregional and, especially,...
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Since the 1990s, the issue of regional income convergence and its long term tendencies has been thoroughly and heatedly … discussed. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to the short-run dynamics of regional convergence. In particular …
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