convergence by facilitating the migration of workers out of the low-productivity agricultural sector into the industry and … convergence with frontier countries. This has the potential to lift millions more out of poverty without exacerbating income …

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE …

Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and convergence of net equivalized income distributions among European Union … inequality-affecting (shape-in uenced) convergence of distributions. …

include sub-national fiscal policies. Baseline results show convergence rates of regional GDP per capita in line with the 2 …% “iron law of convergence” between countries. Capital investment, and public investment in particular, is a stronger driver … government expenditure is associated with lower growth and slower regional convergence, suggesting low sub-national spending …

productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition … to trade openness, an economy’s speed of convergence to its long-run steady state level of MFP is an increasing function …