the recent emphasis on agglomeration effects and divergence. The population flows to urban centers do not generate growth …

-convergence between 2000 and 2018, finding evidences in favour of the neoclassical growth model assumptions. The results of our study … growth rates than the developed ones. In the second part of our paper, we have tried to examine the key drivers of economic … growth in the European Union (conditional β-convergence). Our study suggests that variables such as gross fixed capital …

suggest a long-run succession of regional growth and contraction, though with an increasingly pronounced polarization between …

from several academic and official sources to study the patterns of economic growth through most of the century. We …