-, between 1970 and 2008 across four geographic scales (municipalities, micro-regions, meso-regions and states), using four …This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … two groups (or clubs) shows that the significant reduction in inequality which happened among the states from the North …

, conditional and sigma convergence of GDP growth per capita in the farming field forthe brasilian states in the period of 1980 to … existence of sigma convergence. …

Using panel data, this paper explores the role of infrastructure and human capital in the convergence of income levels … reject the hypothesis of non-convergence in per capita incomes of UE countries, but the results do not support the hypothesis … that the speed of convergence is affected by infrastructures. …

This paper tests the convergence hypothesis across the EU NUTS II regions between 1990 and 2001. It does that using the … does not. The paper also tests whether the eligibility for “objective 1” promotes faster convergence of these regions, but … there is no evidence of that being the case. There is also evidence of conditional convergence among EU regions, with a …