This paper advances the analysis of regional income convergence inColombia, through the use of the income data recently … correctthe significant disparities in per capita income between Colombian regions. …

This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition …

. The results show that the labor productivity reveals strong local disparities and spatial dependency across municipios …

Beta-convergence is determined by the sign of the slope of the income growth line. The conclusion of significance …, hence convergence or divergence, is affected by the temporal choice. Changes in the starting and ending periods influence … the conclusion of convergence, lack of significance, or divergence. The customary t-test for significance of slope is …

This paper revisits the issue of income convergence by examining the question of whether poorer census block groups … conditional convergence hypothesis and explain roughly 60 percent of the variation in income growth. Income growth was positively …

This paper analyses convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia’s regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition …

regions and how shocks to the former end up affecting regional economic performances and economic convergence. As to do so …

indices, the paper investigates into the trends of globalization and disparities in globalization for a period of 11 years … (1999-2009). Disparities have been obtained as the Gini’s coefficient as well as the coefficient of variation. The study … finds that in all the three worlds, the trends in globalization are increasing while the trends in the disparities in …