Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global … spillovers favour convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of …&D expenditures in the world's seven major industrialized countries between 1970 and 1995. First, I find that the scope of technology …

can diverge from the countries at the global frontier. We measure the degree of divergence for each country and find that …

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or … industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is used which encompasses most of the world's innovative activity at …

This paper argues that the application of the `2% rule' to the case of Eastern Germany, which implies convergence in …, structural change is likely to increase aggregate productivity further. Second, convergence is also driven by physical and human … of physical investment in Eastern Germany will accelerate convergence. …

Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At issue is what happens to the cross … preoccupied the traditional approach to convergence analysis. This paper describes an alternative body of research that overcomes … convergence clubs; and on the distribution polarizing into twin peaks of rich and poor - suggest the relevance of a class of …

The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What …

of economic growth. The key features of our analysis of divergence in growth outcomes are an emphasis on the importance …

industrializing world was already wide and widened during the first decades after Independence. While Latin America resumed growth … then the world economy had gone through not one but two industrial revolutions. International trade was increasingly moving …