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. …

uctuate over time. Such a process could have many possible limiting outcomes: complete equal- ity (convergence), stratication …

Convergence concerns the poor catching up with the rich|if not instan- taneously, then at least having a tendency to do … so. When poor and rich here refer to entire economies, then whether convergence occurs is traditionally viewed as just a … side consequence of a more central ques- tion, namely that concerning the nature of economic growth. This paper argues …

This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world …’s population. By modelling growth and inequality as components in a joint stochastic process, the paper calibrates the impact each … macroeconomic: growing average incomes dominate all else. The relation between aggregate economic growth and within …

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 …

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 …

Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At is- sue is what happens to the cross sectional …

We consider the potential importance of labour market efficiency for aggregate growth. The idea is that efficient … labour markets move workers more quickly from low to high productivity sites, thereby raising aggregate productivity growth … data on 15 OECD countries, we estimate this and show that it has a significant effect on growth. The results are robust to …