deviation from its balanced growth path. However, the panel data exploration of convergence could not explain the catching up … phenomenon. To see whether poorer regions can grow faster than richer ones, sigma and absolute beta divergence have been employed …

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 …

. It is also shown that divergence or convergence may arise instead of overtaking, depending on the initial levels of …

We investigate the efficiency of the Dickey-Fuller (DF) test as a tool to examine the convergence hypothesis. In doing … deterministic and stochastic trends. This issue may explain the lack of support for the convergence hypothesis in the aforementioned …

, history and culture. It attributes to discussion on convergence and divergence by appraising traditional values’ impact on … in Turkey. The paper suggests directional convergence’s presence, which means corporations in Turkey follow constant … HRM practices in Turkey, decreasing the likelihood of full convergence. HR practices and literature is dominated by U …

period (post-2001) show, a divergence in per capita SNDP and poverty ratios but convergence in literacy rates and HDI. Kernel … using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net … assessment of socioeconomic convergence in terms of critical indicators of economic inequality, poverty ratios, literacy rate and …

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