"Before the Second World War, the states of Washington and Oregon were thinly populated economic backwaters of the …, for their economic health. That all changed during World War II and the Cold War. By the dawn of the twenty-first century … the World highlights these changes, as well as the politicians, business leaders, and ordinary people who helped bring …

mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries. This paper analyzes the per capita income convergence implications … to the effect of FDI on growth is ambiguous. By applying the approach of Ben-David (1996), which focuses on convergence … among countries grouped with respect to their mutual trade, this paper presents evidence that per capita income convergence …