. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest …

In the European Union, one of the primary goals of integration is the convergence of the regional income per capita … (and of other significant socio-economic indicators), and hence, how to generate a process of convergence. In the economic … literature, theories of convergence and divergence examine the reasons for diminishing or increasing the disparities between the …