Eva MIHAIL, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Cehan ALEXANDRA, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Corodescu-Rosca EMA, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Bourdin SÉBASTIEN, École de management de Normandie, France
This presentation delivers research results concerning 1) the incidence of (infra-national) regional economic growth in a panel of 161 countries, and 2) the relationship between sigma-convergence and geographical clustering of regional growth for a subset of 25 countries. Results indicate that the incidence of world-wide regional growth of more than 2800 regions from 161 countries resembles the well-known “elephant curve” of global inter-personal inequalities. Concerning the relationship between regional convergence and geographical clustering, results show that, while regional inequality decreases with growing GDPPC, regional polarization is more persistent and does not necessarily follow the same rule. Overall, findings also suggest the importance of the geographical dimension in understanding the dynamics of regional inequalities and the fact that aspatial convergence approaches fail to provide an adequate theoretical background for understanding regional disparity dynamics.
Mots clés : regional convergence|geographical polarization|spatial auto-correlation|spatial Gini|global inequality
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