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Title: The Mirage of Convergence: Why Poor Countries May Only Seem to Be Closing the Income Gap

Author(s): Randall K Filer, Dana Hajkova and Jan Hanousek

Publication Date: April 2004

Keyword(s): growth and measurement

Programme Area(s): Institutions and Economic Performance and Transition Economics

Abstract: Replication of two recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive to the choice of data from which growth rates are calculated, especially with respect to whether economic convergence has occurred. Previous warnings against using data that has been adjusted to increase cross-country comparability to study within-country patterns over time (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions.

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Filer, R, Hajkova, D and Hanousek, J. 2004. 'The Mirage of Convergence: Why Poor Countries May Only Seem to Be Closing the Income Gap'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4349