Soukiazis, Elias; Cravo, Túlio - In: Review of Development Economics 12 (2008) 1, pp. 124-142
This paper examines the convergence process across countries for the period 1980-2000, giving special attention to the role of human capital as a conditioning factor. The originality of the study is in the use of new proxies for human capital, such as publications and patents ratio and the...