While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …

This paper analyses to what extent the Spanish provinces have shown a convergence process since 1980 to nowadays. The … exitence of a unique convergence process between them. Rather, we can observe the existence of differentiated clubs up to 2007 …

Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …