Theil’s inequality index is used to measure convergence in 14 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development … the 14 OECD countries. However, the inequality in per capita government expenditure has no effect on the G-7 equilibrium …

This paper studies the possibility of human development convergence in the world from 1975 through 2005. Human … development is measured by the Human Development Index (HDI) trend, and convergence across countries is tested for by the panel … convergence. …

real and nominal convergence remains largely incomplete, which requires a substantial strengthening of alternative …, euro adoption should speed up the convergence process. This Working Paper relates to the 2010 OECD Economic Survey of …'autant plus cruciales à l'approche de l'adoption de la monnaie unique que le processus de convergence réelle et nominale reste …

This paper examines conditional convergence of OECD countries in gross domestic product (GDP) and health care … economic growth and the speed of convergence. The speed of convergence is found to be sensitive to whether one imposes a … constant or estimate the depreciation and technological growth components. With no restrictions imposed the convergence rate is …

This paper evaluates whether there has been any convergence in government expenditures. The results obtained, by means … of the Tukey box-plot, sigma-convergence and conditional beta-convergence, reveal that there is a growing fiscal … competition to attract FDI. In contrast, there is no evidence of convergence in non-productive government expenditures. …