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 …

The processes of economic convergence observed in many developing countries are characterized by reduction of economic … possible to observe both convergence symptoms as well as divergence tendencies. It can be thus stated that the analyzed CEE …

the successful convergence process of those countries, not least thanks to their integration into European and global …; promotion of regional cooperation in areas such as withholding tax, convergence of rules on accounting and stock exchanges in … activities; education and training programs for sectors where wage convergence has made most progress, including promotion of …