in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …

and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis that there is within-country income convergence. Second, through a … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has … translated into poverty convergence. In a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction since 1990, the …

This paper investigates convergence in social indicators among Colombian departments from 1973 to 2005. We use census … estimators). Using literacy rate as a proxy for education, we find convergence between 1973 and 2005, but persistence in the …. Additionally, using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, we find convergence in the rate of children that are well …

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 …

, i.e. contribute to economic growth and convergence between EU countries and especially regions. A theoretical model … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence … a theoretical model for evaluating infrastructure impact on economic growth and convergence. Moreover, based on the …

also increased the velocity of income convergence for the Brazilian Regions. The originality of this paper, associated with … its microrregional delimitation, contributes to a further investigation of the convergence hypothesis, in a more … desegregated level. In Brazil, interregional economic growth have emphasized the importance of Human Capital as a key factor to …

and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis that there is within-country income convergence. Second, through a … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has … translated into poverty convergence. In a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction since 1990, the …

external openness. As novel contributions, we provide a more robust way of estimating convergence clubs for the subsequent …. The main results indicate the presence of conditional convergence, pointing to the idiosyncratic nature of the state …

In this paper, I document the existence of unconditional convergence in labor productivity across Mexican states in … three-digit manufacturing industries. The rate of convergence for the period 1988-2018 is 1.18% per year. However, this … result does not hold at the aggregate level: I find no unconditional convergence in manufacturing-wide labor productivity …