European integration, productivity growth and real convergence

Convergence and growth. Labour productivity dynamics in the European Union

This paper investigates labour productivity dynamics for 1263 regional economies of the European Union during 1991–2007. Despite convergence is usually found to occur conditionally to economy-wide factors, results reveal a clear process of unconditional convergence for financial and business-related market services. Such an evidence is not found for manufacturing and aggregate productivity, for...

Real Convergence , the European Community and Ireland *

As is well known, average living standards in Ireland are much lower than in most of our EC partners. It is of considerable interest to Ireland whether, and in what way, its living standards will catch up or fall further behind as Europe becomes more integrated. The issue is understandably at the heart of the government's strategy towards the EC, and was at the forefront of its diplomatic effor...

Investigating Agricultural Productivity Growth and Convergence in Iran and Eastern African Countries

The issue of convergence or divergence of productivity has important policy for regional poverty reduction and increasing standards of living. If productivity converges to a common level without intervention, there is little need for explicit policies in lagging regions to promote catch up. On the other hand, productivity has divergence trend, then explicit policies would be needed to prevent f...

Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture and Manufacturing

European Integration , Regional Policy , and Growth

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