This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

percent. Average productivity growth in EMDEs has picked up rapidly since 2000, renewing interest in the convergence … rate of convergence remains low, with current growth differentials halving the productivity gap only after over 100 years …. Behind the low average pace of convergence lies considerable diversity among groups of countries converging toward different …

the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional … convergence afterward. This paper analyzes poverty trends, poverty convergence, economic mobility, and the determinants of poverty …

them as regards the relationship between factor shares and speed of convergence. Using cross-country/time-series data, we … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short …-run parameters. Indeed, both theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries due …

In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from … model to analyze regional convergence process in the Russian case. We also take into account possible spatial effects and do … a series of other robustness checks. Our main estimates establish a convergence rate of around 2% per year. While we …

and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis that there is within-country income convergence. Second, through a … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has … translated into poverty convergence. In a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction since 1990, the …

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel … estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a threshold model. Our results show that economic convergence is …