East-European states will be essential to their success, all the more because priorities pertaining to growth and … the area of “soft power” policies needs to be furthered, in order for them to attain more convergence and lead to an …

region’s last 200 years. If we take a closer look at historic periods’ convergence performance we can see substantial … innovations spread throughout the economy. The paper concluded that relative convergence was achieved in some introduction periods … due to smaller exposure to economic crises. Convergence occurred also in some deployment technology phases supported by …

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …

importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

, convergence, growth. … more than a century. The changes in aggregate or average income is a good measure for economic growth but is far from being … moreover to investigate the role and the effects on socio-economic growth. Keywords: Income distribution, inequality, poverty …

indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates … convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …

The topic of this paper is an analysis of the growth of the Serbian economy. The paper is primarily devoted to the … analysis of the sources of growth of the Serbian economy. In this regard, apart from conventional decomposition of growth (into … contributions of capital, labor, and total factor productivity), the demand side and the industry composition sides of the sources-of-growth …

We show that the use of pooled and panel data in estimating convergence across countries (or other territorial areas …) may involve some pitfalls since this type of data cannot properly distinguish between actual convergence and the … possibility of decreasing growth rates over time within each country (or geographical unit). We also show how the possible bias in …

Literature on convergence among Latin American countries is still scarce compared to other regions. Almost none of the … research connects convergence to the economic history of Latin America and the usual finding is one speed of convergence … study, which allows me to use chronological events to explain, analyze and validate the historical convergence clubs in …

for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not fulfilled, we apply in this paper the framework set by … positively affected Latin American economic growth in this period, while the determinants traditionally put forward in the … empirical growth literature, such as technical change and openness, did not. Finally, the positive correlation between the …