We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....

The objective of this paper is to test the unconditional convergence (β and σ convergence, Barro and Sala-i-Martin, 1995) across 15 major Indian States from 1980-81 to 2010-11, and to explore the proximate reasons for the growing regional inequality. The present piece of work also carried out...