Abstract The paper studies the convergence and growth behavior of 11 Central Eastern European members states Union between 2000–2019, using a modified development accounting approach based on neoclassical model. main goal exercise is to decompose still existing gap relative Western Europe (Austria) into three components: convergence, productivity, long-run factors. latter may include general in...

The aim of the research presented here is to assess magnitude burden health limitations due air pollution on world’s economies. This was determined by estimated number premature years life lost (YLLs) or (YLDs) air-pollution-related diseases in working-age population. Attention drawn problem existing inequalities global between economies with different income levels. hypothesis persistently hig...

As opposed to the Veblen-Gerschenkron catching-up hypothesis, the recent literature allows for technological divergence in backward economies. We extend a non-linear adoption function to include openness and interact with capital accumulation in an intertemporal general equilibrium framework. The threshold gap necessary to catch-up is endogenously determined by the economy’s absorptive capacity...

This paper investigates the total factor productivity (TFP) performance of NWFP agriculture crop subsector from 1970 to 2004. It identifies the sources of growth of TFP growth and assesses TFP growth changes in agriculture crop sub-sector. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is used to estimate the changes in the production frontier. The Malmquist productivity index has decomposed total fa...