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Stochastic and club convergence of ecological footprint: An empirical analysis for different income group of countries

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
exaly   +3 more sources

Convergence in maternal mortality ratios: evidence and implications for SDG 3.1. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background 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 ...
Espoir DK.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Convergence in public health expenditure across the Sub-Saharan African countries: does club convergence matter?

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
doaj   +1 more source

Convergence or divergence patterns in income distribution across countries: A new evidence from a club clustering algorithm

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
doaj   +1 more source

Does club convergence matter? Empirical evidence on inequality in the human development index among Indian states

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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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
doaj   +1 more source

Club convergence of labour productivity in agriculture: Evidence from EU countries

Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2020
This paper studies club convergence in relation to labour productivity in the agriculture industry of 28 European Union countries for the period 2005 to 2018.
Arkadiusz Kijek, Tomasz Kijek, Anna Nowak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paths of income convergence between country pairs within Europe [PDF]

Ekonomski Anali, 2014
This paper explores income convergence in European countries. Unlike previous research, the analysis is based on the pair-wise approach (Pesaran, 2007), identifying four cases: long-run convergence, catching-up, lagging-behind, and divergence ...
Gligorić Mirjana
doaj   +1 more source

DO PRICES CONVERGE AMONG INDONESIAN CITIES? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2019
We investigate consumer price convergence for 82 Indonesian cities using monthly data from 2014 to 2019. To do so, we employ recent techniques of club convergence and weak sigma convergence.
Bhushan Praveen Jangam, Vaseem Akram, Vaseem   +1 more
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