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Regional Convergence in Bangladesh using Night Lights

Basher, Syed Abul; Rashid, Salim; Uddin, Mohammad Riad - 2022

We analyze economic convergence across 64 districts of Bangladesh using newly harmonized satellite night light data …

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Convergence across subnational regions of Bangladesh : what the night lights data say?

Basher, Syed Abul; Behtarin, Jobaida; Rashid, Salim - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-13

We examine economic convergence among subnational regions of Bangladesh over the period 1992-2013. Unavailability of … disparity is persistent and wide across Bangladesh's 544 upazilas (subdistricts). There is evidence that lagging upazilas are … convergence"). Overall, consistent with the evidence from studies on regional inequality in Bangladesh, our results also indicate …

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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China

Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a...

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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented Solow model

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. The Solow model extended by human capital is employed as a workhorse. Alternative strategies are proposed to control for spatial effects. All specifications...

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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany

Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the first years after German unification the distribution of GDP...

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Regional disparities in per capital income in India : convergence or divergence?

Cherodian, Rowan; Thirlwall, Anthony P. - 2013

The paper looks at the latest evidence of what has been happening to regional disparities in per capita income (measured as Gross State Domestic Product per capita) in India over the first decade of the twenty first century (1999/00 to 2010/11) by estimating cross section equations for...

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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society : the case of german convergence in self-employment

Schindele, Yvonne - 2010

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there has been an ambitious political goal of fostering entrepreneurial activity in that part of the country. One of the most-hoped for results of this undertaking is the anticipated...

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Persistence of inequalities across the Spanish regions

Rodríguez López, Jesús; Martínez-López, Diego; … - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 88 (2009) 4, pp. 841-862

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Distribution dynamics of regional GDP per employee in unified Germany

Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Ketterer, Florian; … - 2011 - This version: September 2011

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has been achieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distribution of GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures. While in the first year after unification, the two...

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Is there convergence of Russia's regions? : exploring the empirical evidence ; 1995 - 2010

Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - 2013

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...

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