This paper advances the analysis of regional income convergence inColombia, through the use of the income data recently … income is more than double that of thenational average, and more than eight times the per capita income of the poorest … department,Chocó. Persistence in the departmental per capita income ranking is observed:Bogotá is always ahead, while the …

current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …, well-being and fiscal capacity, and to analyze trends toward or away from convergence for these economic variables. This …

Beta-convergence is determined by the sign of the slope of the income growth line. The conclusion of significance …, hence convergence or divergence, is affected by the temporal choice. Changes in the starting and ending periods influence … the conclusion of convergence, lack of significance, or divergence. The customary t-test for significance of slope is …

Economic convergence exists when two or more economies tend to reach a similar level of development and wealth. The … study of convergence is an important topic because besides being useful for the debate between different theories, it can … respond several inquiries such as if the distribution of income between economies has become more equal over time and if poor …

Economic convergence exists when two or more economies tend to reach a similar level of development and wealth. The … study of convergence is an important topic because besides being useful for the debate between different theories, it can … respond several inquiries such as if the distribution of income between economies has become more equal over time and if poor …

-1974 and 1990-1994 periods. After that, the lower income economies showed convergence to the relative richer countries, but in …This paper analyzes the convergence process in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1960-2005 period. The … evidence is not favorable to clear convergence or divergence trends, but to a slight process of convergence until the 1970s …

to examine the beta-convergence and sigma-convergence of the markets. The results suggest that with respect to sigma-convergence …, while the markets are becoming increasingly integrated, the convergence of the returns of the cross-listed securities is … debatable, indicating some degree of information asymmetry. The results of the beta-convergence imply that the speed of …

This paper studies absolute and conditional convergence (alfa and beta-convergence too,) in Mexico over the period 1970 …-1995. I use the neoclassical growth model and a cross-section data for empirics. I find evidence of conditional convergence … (near at traditional 2% rate) for full period but different rates for other periods. I find also a faster convergence rate …

rate, and the adult literacy rate across states in Mexico between 1994 and 2000. It analyzes the hypothesis of convergence …