that China's productivity convergence remains at an early stage, with the industrial sector more advanced than services … transformation and its impact on economic growth. To fill the gap, this paper takes a deep dive into China's convergence progress in …-tech sectors. Going forward, ample room remains for further convergence, but the shrinking distance to the frontier, the structural …

result of low investment. Latin America is poorer because of lower human capital levels and lower TFP-not because of a lower …In the last few decades there has been little convergence of income levels in Latin America with those in the United … States, in sharp contrast with both emerging Asia and emerging Europe. This paper argues that lack of convergence was not the …

foreign investment as a share of GDP in the recent global history, and this has contributed to productivity convergence. We … technology transfers that support convergence. In this chapter we review economic developments in the EU Central, Eastern and … Slovakia) since the late 1990s, linking their take-off to the opening to trade and infusion of foreign direct investment (FDI …