We focus on regional convergence based upon a sample of 19 European countries (1991-2008). After covering theoretical … issues on -convergence and -convergence, we focused on the income distribution details. Our evidence confirms some results … presented elsewhere, such as the convergence process ephemeral nature, the trend towards polarization, the relative region …

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence … using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of ?-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and … convergence exists when allowing for structural breaks using the two-break minimum LM unit root of Lee and Strazicich (2003). The …

Development Index trend and convergence across countries is tested for by the conventional cross-country methods of ?- and … ?-convergence. We perform similar analyses on those countries that joined the European Union before its 2004 enlargement and on all … current members of the EU too. Our results indicate convergence for all three groups of countries we consider, that is …

This paper tests for convergence in relative per capita electric power consumption for 22 African countries, covering … the period 1971-2002. Parametric techniques which are regressions and unit root tests are used. Neoclassical convergence … hypothesis such as the ?-convergence is rejected while evidence in support of ?-convergence is obtained. Stochastic convergence …

73% of the sample’s cross-country variation. The empirical findings clearly reject absolute convergence in income per … capita but are very strongly supportive of conditional convergence at an estimated average annual rate of 0.8% to 1.2% a year …. It is also shown that the speed of convergence is far from constant over time: it has been mostly increasing during 1960 …