Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …

Long-term regional convergence hypothesis is examined for 32 Mexican states in a regional growth model with poverty … traps using a new dataset on regional income inequality for the period 1940-2011. Although zero-growth poverty trap …

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 … Russia, the social services sector of the public administration, education and health still do not have the expected …