convergence/divergence has mapped spatially and whether it makes sense to talk about spatial regions in Mexico. Although the rich …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two … the projected convergence in average incomes across countries, with poor and populous countries growing faster than the …

The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …

convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period 1919-39 was associated with divergence of incomes among the rich …Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two world wars led to … income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income …

countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world. Adopting a common standard in a region-that is, harmonization …

, expertise, and financing. The United Nations and the World Bank have been involved in a number of such projects in Africa, Asia …

successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade … diversion), but its impact on their exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During its first 10 years of existence …, ECOWAS appears to have had a positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade diversion …