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Spatial Analysis of Economic Convergence

2009
This chapter reviews some of the major econometric models, approaches and issues related to the spatial dimensions of economic convergence and inequality. Key themes concern the implications of spatial dependence (autocorrelation) and heterogeneity for the specification, estimation, and interpretation of convergence models on the one hand and, on the ...
Sergio J. Rey, Julie Le Gallo
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Economic Convergence and Monetary Union

1993
The Maastricht Treaty has acknowledged, and translated into precise criteria and indicators, the need for increased economic convergence to enter the final phase of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In this paper, we examine the improvement in the process of economic convergence since the creation of the EMS in 1979 and until mid-1992, as well as the ...
Ciro Schioppa, Francesco Papadia
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Globalization and the Myth of Economic Convergence

Économie appliquée, 2002
This paper offers a critical survey of a strong globalization thesis that predicts a direct link from more open trade and investment regimes to faster economic growth in developing countries and income convergence across the global economy. Its examination of recent experience suggests that while in a more open and integrated world economy both the ...
Kozul-Wright, Richard, Rowthorn, Robert
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Real Economic Convergence [PDF]

, 2009
Real convergence is an essential objective of Romaniaâ s integration into the EU. Bridging the development gaps between Romania and the EU as soon as possible cannot be achieved exclusively through market forces, since they rather tend to cause divergence and polarization. For this purpose, special tools and mechanisms are required; e.g., cohesion. The
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Remarks on the Economic Implications of Convergence

Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996
Convergence means different things to different people This paper discusses two ways in which convergence is generally discussed: (i) the convergence of voice, video and data in telecommunications markets: and (ii) the convergence of the telecommunications an computer industries In order to understand what types of new services will be offered and how ...
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Globalisation, Economic Policy and Convergence

The World Economy, 2000
A NUMBER of recent contributions to the growth literature have emphasised the positive role played by the forces of globalisation in enabling poor countries to converge on the living standards of rich ones. These include Sachs and Warner (1995), Aziz and Wescott (1997), IMF (1997), World Bank (1997), Dollar and Burnside (1997), Edwards (1998) and ...
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Economic Convergence: An Aspiration Unfulfilled

1994
Every known economy has had significant differences between its „core“ and its „periphery“.
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Converging Human Rights and Economics?

2018
The adequacy of pensions, equality, mitigating impact on the poor, and protecting vulnerable persons and groups currently seem to rank high on the agenda of both economists and human rights lawyers. If this is a sign of convergence between the two regimes, it would be more than welcome as that may be the only way of overcoming the hegemonic struggle ...
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Physical activity counseling in primary care: Insights from public health and behavioral economics

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2017
Kerem Shuval, Tammy Leonard, David L Katz   +2 more
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A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

Functional Ecology, 2012
Grégoire T Freschet, Johannes H C Cornelissen, Rien Aerts   +2 more
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