inequality. An estimated baseline convergence model captures the long-term effect of human capital and total investment on …

An estimated baseline convergence model capturing the long-term effect of human capital and physical investment on … increase the speed of convergence of catching-up countries. Public investment is more beneficial in some areas than others …

convergence by facilitating the migration of workers out of the low-productivity agricultural sector into the industry and … convergence with frontier countries. This has the potential to lift millions more out of poverty without exacerbating income …

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE …