The Penn World Table 7.0 is a comprehensive database covering measures of GDP and its components for almost all …

things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

convergence among these countries with that reached by other 17 potential convergence clubs around the world (including the EU-27 …

particularly the incorporation of China and India into the world market economy. For 29 countries since 1919, the levels and trends …

There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living …

reason might be perspective. Most convergence papers frame the analysis in a `Solow world' in which countries exist … independent of one another. But most international trade economists have a very different perspective of a world in which … convergence. Finally, I give two examples applying some of these ideas to real-world data. The basic point of the paper is that …