This paper advances the analysis of regional income convergence inColombia, through the use of the income data recently … income is more than double that of thenational average, and more than eight times the per capita income of the poorest … department,Chocó. Persistence in the departmental per capita income ranking is observed:Bogotá is always ahead, while the …

current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …, well-being and fiscal capacity, and to analyze trends toward or away from convergence for these economic variables. This …

of their causes, have kept labor productivity with strong spatial dependency and regional inequality. …

The main intention of the present work is to identify the clubs formation of the economic convergence and divergence … formation. This study was done by a comparative analysis among economic growth and the convergence hypothesis, based on a … the Mexican States, pointing out the existence of convergence and divergence centers, which are differentiated by their …

based on the expenditure of households, compared to the most common approach that uses income as a referent variable. It …

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 …

In this paper we analyze fifty years of economic convergence for the regions of Chile, in a context of radical … political changes associated with deep economic transformations. For the analysis of convergence of GDP per capita, the sub … variable productivity. The analysis was carried out using the definitions of absolute ß convergence and s convergence, and …

This study aims to determine patterns of poverty and inequality in small areas and household characteristics related to …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …