Abstract Future economic growth will affect societal well-being and the environment, but is uncertain. We describe a multidecadal pattern of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita rising, then declining, as regions become richer. An empirically fitted differential-equation model an integrated assessment model—International Futures—accounting for this both predict 21 st -century outlooks with s...

Abstract Human capital is an important factor of economic growth. Previous studies show that convergence patterns income and education differ on a regional level. The purpose this article to verify whether there statistical relationship between the educational achievements processes in Poland local paper describes applies innovative way for formal verification similarities basis transition matr...

This study suggests a two-step approach to identifying and interpreting regional convergence clubs in Europe. The first step involves identifying the number and composition of clubs using a space-time panel data model for annual income growth rates in conjunction with Bayesian model comparison methods. A second step uses a Bayesian space-time panel data model to assess how changes in the initia...