investigates the hypothesis of absolute and conditional convergence of income among the Brazilian states from 1994 to 2010. The … the second step we test the convergence hypothesis to corroborate the existence of absolute and conditional convergence … among Brazilian regions. The speed of convergence is estimated by neoclassical model. The model of absolute convergence …

Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …