Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2013
Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … empirics. In this contribution we address this puzzle. After showing some evidence of regional convergence, we demonstrate that …