This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban … paper finds absolute convergence in living standards across districts and places below the district level, with locations in … the gray area between rural and urban growing fastest. In assessing conditional convergence, it finds that geography is a …

down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …

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 …. "--World Bank web site …

and their connectivity to each other and the rest of the world. Aggregate real income gains from the Belt Road Initiative …