Assessing the European convergence machine: do countries converge and regions do not?

Roberto Zelli, M.G. Pittau and A. Vaiano

Working Paper CRENoS from Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia

Abstract: According to the World Bank report (Gill & Raiser, 2012), the EU has become the modern world's greatest "convergence machine". While the process of convergence has been acknowledged at country level, results at regional level are still unclear. Using the most advanced techniques, we assess convergence across European NUTS2 regions over forty years. The distributional dynamic approach unveils different perspectives that traditional methods have overlooked. We conclude that a process of catching-up between low- and middle-income regions has been in progress, while wealthy regions have been drifting away.

Keywords: mixture models; EU regions; Club convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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