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Testing Club Convergence in Female Smoking Prevalence [PDF]
Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022 In this paper, we applied the concept of convergence to examine the evolution of smoking prevalence among women in 191 countries worldwide from 1990 to 2019.
Fabrizio Ferretti +2 more
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Convergence in public health expenditure across the Sub-Saharan African countries: does club convergence matter? [PDF]
Health Economics Review, 2021 Background Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries that currently face enormous healthcare challenges have implemented national health policies focusing on regional or international health commitments.
Ousmane Traoré
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Does club convergence matter? Empirical evidence on inequality in the human development index among Indian states [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The Human Development Index (HDI) is recognised as the most commonly used composite index to assess the socio-economic progress of a country. To preserve its pioneering role in development, there has to be a reduction in inequalities and cross-state ...
Ajit Nag, Jalandhar Pradhan
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Does club convergence matter in health outcomes? Evidence from Indian states [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Population health is vital to a nation’s overall well-being and development. To achieve sustainable human development, a reduction in health inequalities and an increase in interstate convergence in health indicators is necessary.
Ajit Nag +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 The convergence of environmental pollution is one of the contemporary issues in economics. Indeed, most of the long-run climate projections and future predictions of environmental conditions are based on convergence presumption.
Ilyas Okumus, Sinan Erdoğan
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Testing the Club Convergence Dynamics of the COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Across the OECD Countries [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Vaccines are essential to create a more resilient economic growth model. Ending the COVID-19 pandemic requires a more coordinated, effective, and equitable distribution of vaccines across the countries.
Weibin Xu +3 more
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Convergence in maternal mortality ratios: evidence and implications for SDG 3.1 [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Since 2000, the world has achieved notable progress in reducing maternal mortality, though regional disparities remain pronounced. These uneven outcomes raise critical questions about whether countries are collectively converging toward the ...
Delphin Kamanda Espoir
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022 Since globalisation accelerated in the early 1990s, income inequality has increased in most developed countries and in some middle-income countries, including China and India.
Delphin Kamanda Espoir
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Empirics of convergence in industrialisation and their determinants: global evidence
Discover Sustainability, 2023 This study examines the convergence club in industrialisation by using an algorithm developed by Phillips and Sul. We used 183 countries for the period between 2000 and 2018.
Charles Shaaba Saba, Nicholas Ngepah
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What Have We Not Learned from the Convergence Debate?
Mathematics, 2023 We argue that the alternative hypotheses about cross-country convergence dynamics, namely the Conditional Convergence Hypothesis, Absolute Convergence Hypothesis, and Club Convergence hypothesis, build upon different modelling choices and answer ...
Leone Leonida
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