, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay). The specific aim was to provide a decentralised, independent infrastructure to … that local organisations improve their conditions in terms of education, healthcare, communication/information and …

, education, roads, industrial power consumption and bank depositsas infrastructure components explaining cross-state variation in … in-creased. The observed polarisation is explained by the disparate distributionof infrastructure, in particular, that of … education, irrigation and literacy inthe formation of the lower convergence club. Parametric analysis establishesirrigation …