As with the EU 15, income convergence for the regions again turns out to be slower than convergence between countries.

The convergence trend in the EU at the country level is reflected in the regions.

In the US, successful convergence in economic conditions across regions relies strongly on labor mobility.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence.

Will Technology Kill Convergence?

But interest rate convergence caused economic divergence.

For starters, there is the convergence argument.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence. Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

Over time, this stimulated ever greater economic convergence.

Immigration illustrates the cost of integration without convergence.

Of course, economic convergence is a long term business.

Are their experiences mutually exclusive, or is convergence possible?

Are these experiences mutually exclusive, or is convergence possible?

As regions become satiated, protests will spread to the regions.

I think they re two quite different modes divergence and convergence.

The convergence criterion on exchange rates is in similar disarray.

In Central Russia, this convergence evolved into managing wildfire activity.

A World of Regions

Slow German growth, he maintains, is a sign of natural convergence.

Nor could we find any convergence regarding government deficits and debt.

With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.

With the introduction of the euro, and with falling inflation, nominal convergence and real convergence have grown similar, both making gradual progress since the mid 1990 s.

Henry Jenkins, a key theorist of new media and media convergence draws on the theory that collective intelligence can be attributed to media convergence and participatory culture .

English regions may soon follow.

First, they argue that much convergence has already taken place in manufacturing.

On re regulating finance, there are plenty of good ideas, but little convergence.

At this point there emerges a clear convergence between French and German thinking.

If fiscal rules are unnecessary, then a fiscal convergence criterion is also unnecessary.

It will heighten the difficulty of meeting the convergence criteria for euro adoption.

If fiscal rules are unnecessary, then a fiscal convergence criterion is also unnecessary.

These regions are trapped in poverty.

Regions suitable for farming will shift.

Rice is grown in rainy regions.

Coastal regions generally have milder climates.

Multilateralism is most successful when built on a real convergence of interests and values.

Regions and prefectures The island is nominally divided into five regions and contains 34 prefectures, including metropolitan Tokyo.

Deserts and dry regions are becoming drier.

The leading regions have experienced rapid growth.

58 216. Sustainable development in mountain regions

Aid is being gathered across all regions.

Demands of self rule in other regions

Just as it is the responsibility of creditor regions in the world s other currency unions to support the debtor regions (which they do through a variety of means), it is up to the eurozone s creditor regions to underpin its debtor regions solvency.

It is typically found that the degree of convergence is very high in terms of foreign trade, capital flows, and banking sector integration, while cyclical convergence and labor mobility have been low so far.

The political process has now reached a phase at which areas of convergence are emerging.

Fourth, it is vital that EU institutions have spoken more openly about the convergence criteria.