stable stylised fact, or whether it is a new phenomenon, the outcome of a process of convergence towards the current '50 …

This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … the scale reduction. This suggests the occurrence of a distinct convergence process of the per capita GPD between the two … North and Northeast and the convergence for the rest of the country. This result shows that there is not one scale that is …

investigates the hypothesis of absolute and conditional convergence of income among the Brazilian states from 1994 to 2010. The … the second step we test the convergence hypothesis to corroborate the existence of absolute and conditional convergence … among Brazilian regions. The speed of convergence is estimated by neoclassical model. The model of absolute convergence …

This paper expands the analysis developed by Ellery Jr. (1994), who estimated the income convergence among Brazilian … states from 1970 to 1990. The methodology is based on the convergence model proposed by Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1992) and is … applied to test both the beta-convergence and the sigma-convergence. For the period after 1990, and sub-periods, the effects …