The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence … member countries. Our paper deals with the evolution of the EU cohesion funds, as well as with the results of convergence …. * Study within the CEEX Programme Project No. 220/2006 Economic Convergence and Role of Knowledge in Relation to the EU …

-economic system of European type: transition to the market economy, accession to the EU, the economic convergence in the three … perspective assessment to find out the real and nominal convergence. Putting into practice the EU competitivity and cohesion …. Although the real convergence of Romania with the EU requires higher growth rates for the former, a new approach is compulsory …

In this paper, I document the existence of unconditional convergence in labor productivity across Mexican states in … three-digit manufacturing industries. The rate of convergence for the period 1988-2018 is 1.18% per year. However, this … result does not hold at the aggregate level: I find no unconditional convergence in manufacturing-wide labor productivity …