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 …

This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … -, between 1970 and 2008 across four geographic scales (municipalities, micro-regions, meso-regions and states), using four … increases between the micro-regions and municipalities. As for the rest of the country the results are not strongly affected by …

(starting in the 50s, at the outset of industrialization) of the convergence in productivity of the Portuguese economy towards … the most developed European countries. In an econometric equation of conditional convergence over the XXth century …, openness has a positive effect in growth potential, and the rate of convergence increases with the share of investment goods in …

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. …