Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …

-like situation with a set of ‘initial conditions' conducive for analysing patterns of convergence and divergence in the processes of … complex pattern of non-linear regional growth dynamics with convergence tendencies largely swaddled by processes of cumulative … convergence at the middle- and lower-ends of the distribution and a slower tendency for club formation at the higher end, and thus …