Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At is- sue is what happens to the cross sectional …

global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

growth and major strands of the empirical literatures on R&D, productivity growth, and productivity convergence. Starting …

Convergence concerns the poor catching up with the rich|if not instan- taneously, then at least having a tendency to do … so. When poor and rich here refer to entire economies, then whether convergence occurs is traditionally viewed as just a … instead that convergence itself is of direct interest. When conver- gence is made central and thus investigated, new …

-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …

peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theo- retical problems …

productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …