ECON455 WISC Long-Run Convergence Of Countries

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Please read Chapter 2.6 “Are Living Standards of Developing and Developed Nations Converging?” (p78-83) and discuss whether developing countries are catching up per capita GDP with developed countries. If you do not have the textbook, please go to JSTOR, find an academic article “A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth” by Gregory Mankiw, David Romer, and David N. Weil (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107(2), 407-437, 1992) or “Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing” by Dani Rodrik (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 128(1), 165-204, 2013), and discuss the same question.

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Running Head: CONVERGENCE OF COUNTRIES

CONVERGENCE OF COUNTRIES
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CONVERGENCE OF COUNTRIES
Convergence of countries
The convergence issue has become very prominent among economic assessors.Economic
growth literature has presented evidence on the extentof convergence across various measures of
standards of living and per capita income of developing and developed countries. The ...


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