This paper contributes to the empirical literature on convergence by applying convergence model to components of …, we extend the traditional convergence model to allow for spatial correlation between countries in the sample, by … Education. More precisely, half-life convergence for Defence occurs in 6.37 years, for Health in 3.11 years and for Education in …

Do regions converge? This essay provides an overview of the key developments in the study of regional convergence …, discussing the methodological issues that have arisen since the first attempts to analyse convergence and critically surveying … reach an answer: (i) not all empirical approaches to the analysis of convergence appear equally reliable and not all results …