This paper analyses the impact of technological capabilities on convergence. While looking at the relevance of … income, we provide econometric tests on the role of technology in determining convergence outcomes in a growth regression …-2014. Our results show that convergence is conditional on technological capabilities. This finding is robust to controlling for …

This paper analyses the impact of technological capabilities on convergence. While looking at the relevance of … income, we provide econometric tests on the role of technology in determining convergence outcomes in a growth regression …-2014. Our results show that convergence is conditional on technological capabilities. This finding is robust to controlling for …

implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … the estimation of a convergence model, which shows that differences in innovation between MENA countries explain … differences in the convergence process of these countries toward EU GDP per capita. These results have important policy …