living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth … eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada …, the renaissance of service sector productivity in the United States, a regional comparison of U.S-Canada standards of …

In this paper, different tests of unit root in panel data are implemented for studying real economic convergence and … absolute convergence and catching-up processes in sample countries towards EU standards. …

decades. Regional convergence in the EU-15 has been remarkably slow, and while recent regional productivity growth has been … the issue of whether, and to what extent, there has been regional convergence in productivity levels over the past two …Gardiner B., Martin R. and Tyler P. (2004) Competitiveness, productivity and economic growth across the European …

Canada has long been characterized by significant regional disparities. Such inequalities can create and exacerbate … regional tensions and lead to demands for further redistribution of wealth. The objective of this study is to report on the …, well-being and fiscal capacity, and to analyze trends toward or away from convergence for these economic variables. This …

A debate on the regional disparity is always an interesting topic. This study analysed the regional income disparity in … Central Statistical Organisation. First, the study reviewed various growth models and suggests that spatial durbin model of … and disscussed the convergence hypothesis in the light of LeSange and Fischer (2008) formulation. The study concludes that …

indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates … convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …

for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not fulfilled, we apply in this paper the framework set by … positively affected Latin American economic growth in this period, while the determinants traditionally put forward in the … empirical growth literature, such as technical change and openness, did not. Finally, the positive correlation between the …

capita output growth, the credit cycle, the stock of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the current account balance … find that lower exchange rate volatility is associated with higher growth (for relatively less financially developed …

convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …