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 …

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

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 trade is increasingly ruled by preferential trade agreements (PTAs), but their precise nature remains relatively … Trade Center and the World Bank. The data set covers 5,203 products, 199 reporters, and 239 partners, representing … approximately 97 percent of world imports in 2016. There are three main findings. First, PTAs have significantly widened the scope …

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

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 …