India's globalization is a conscious and deliberate effort to permit the factors of production, the produce and the socio-economic forces to permeate across the national boundaries and remove any obstacle to such permeance. In short, it has been a deliberate decision to open up a national...

The paper is an attempt to re-examine the convergence hypothesis using data for a period of 58 years for the global economies and sub-national economies in India for a set of 141 countries and 27 Indian States. Findings revealed continuance of sigma and beta divergence of global economies till...