Using intradistribution dynamics and panel unit root tests, this study considers the economic convergence processes of … 53 African countries during the period 1950–2008. The stochastic evidence reveals no global convergence among African … countries but provides indications of convergence clubs. The poorest countries remained relatively poor, stuck in a poverty trap …

implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … the estimation of a convergence model, which shows that differences in innovation between MENA countries explain … differences in the convergence process of these countries toward EU GDP per capita. These results have important policy …

the link financial development - convergence/divergence to the advanced countries' growth. As predicted by literature, the … confirmed. We support only partially the role that the financial development could play in the acceleration of the convergence …

-country regression displays income convergence. However, their assumption that this derives from an augmented Solow model requires …

a convergence process in governance outcomes across the sample countries throughout the study period, mainly due to the … suggest that the observed convergence will not continue indefinitely. Furthermore, the analysis carried out reveals that the …

-country regression displays income convergence. However, their assumption that this derives from an augmented Solow model requires …

Regional convergence has become a heated topic in recent decades. Most papers studying this question define regions … regions over the period 1995 to 2006. The results describe a process of income convergence among these regions. …