What have We Learnt from the Convergence Debate

By Nazrul Islam. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Tourism and regional income inequality: Evidence from China (2016, background): “However, it is found that their influence on the convergence results is great, and neglecting spatial effects clouds the causes, speed and nature of the convergence process (Islam, 2003; James & Campbell, 2013; 2014).”
Fostering Environment Efficiency through Transnational Linkages? Trajectories of CO2 and SO2, 1980–2000 (2008, neutral): “We begin our empirical investigation by analysing what the economic literature on income convergence terms `absolute' or `unconditional' convergence (eg see Barro and Sala-i-Martin, 2004; Islam, 2003).”
Pan-European regional income growth and club-convergence (2005, background): “Evidently, steady-state determinants cannot be used for this purpose, since a difference in their levels causes equilibria to differ even under conditional convergence (Islam 2003).”
The Competitiveness of Nations: Why Some Countries Prosper While Others Fall Behind (2007, background): “Kaldor (1978) and Fagerberg (1996) both found that rising ULC could be associated with improvements in export performance, especially among the more technologically advanced countries.”
Fighting terrorism in Africa: Benchmarking policy harmonization (2018, neutral): “1 Convergence As documented in mainstream convergence literature (Islam, 2003; Asongu, 2014b), catch-up can be understood from various facets, notably: convergence across countries versus (vs) convergence within an economy; convergence in income vs.”
Closing the Technology Gap (2011, background): “The study of the variety of economic growth patterns across countries does now constitute a central research theme in growth empirics (Temple, 1999; Islam, 2003; Durlauf et al., 2005).”
How to Measure the Unobservable: a panel technique for the analysis of TFP convergence (2005, positive): “Again, we use equation (6) to obtain ( )ˆ 0 iA , and transform the data as ( ) ( )ˆ ˆ0 0i LomA A , with ( )ˆ 0 LomA being the estimated fixed effect of 36 See Islam (2003), p.349.”
Catching up or standing still? (2004, methodology): “20 Preliminary analysis applying the techniques elaborated by ( Islam, 1995, 2003 ) to the data underlying Fig. 4B provides suggestive evidence of statistical convergence in innovative capacity.”
Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme (2020, background): “While there has been some convergence among clubs of countries since the 1980s, the main consensus is still that there is no strong trend of gradual global convergence in income levels (Goda and García, 2017; Islam, 2003; Johnson and Papageorgiou, forthcoming; Popov and Jomo, 2018; Pritchett, 1997).”
On the non-convergence of energy intensities: Evidence from a pair-wise econometric approach (2010, neutral): “11See also Bernard and Durlauf (1996) for an interpretation of the results of their 1995’s paper and Islam (2003) for a”