contracting parties - like the four Lome Conventions, which ensured the ACP-countries free access to the European markets in …

The Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have benefited from unilateral preferential access to EU markets under …, one of the main concerns of ACP countries is their inability to benefit from their preferential status due to their lack …, instead reciprocal trade agreements, the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), should replace the former ones in 2008. ACP …

, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) preferences actually have negative effects toward the end of our time period, suggesting that ACP …

We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence …

The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …

the Europe 2020 Strategy. As provided in the Convergence Programme 2014-2020, this objective entails a series of steps … are calculated, using linear and quadratic functions, the Gross Domestic Product GDP trends, and, with the convergence …

convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 … additional 20% are country specific factors. Estimating convergence equations, we noticed that regional innovations tend to … increase inter-regional differences, at least during the short-run period. Thus, if regional income convergence is a policy …

, we suggest that the convergence based on the productivity, can be assisted by a reinforcement of supply-side measures …