Using intradistribution dynamics and panel unit root tests, this study considers the economic convergence processes of … 53 African countries during the period 1950–2008. The stochastic evidence reveals no global convergence among African … countries but provides indications of convergence clubs. The poorest countries remained relatively poor, stuck in a poverty trap …

The convergence literature frequently presupposes some unidentified steady state distribution. This paper presents a … new method to identify the presence and rate of convergence to a steady state distribution. The method is illustrated with …

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish … provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence … properties, the paper presents results that suggest convergence is dominant for the full sample over the entire period, swings in …

In this paper we employ traditional beta, sigma, gamma-convergence tools to assess growth behaviour of groups of … countries in connection with mixture densities. In the presence of mixtures, the standard methods to assess convergence are …. Our results show that, taken as global measures, convergence is an uncommon feature, whereas focusing on the individual …