Twin Peaks: Growth and Convergence in Models of Distribution Dynamics

Danny Quah ()

Economic Journal, 1996, vol. 106, issue 437, 1045-55

Abstract: Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At issue is what happens to the cross sectional distribution of economies, not whether a single economy tends towards its own steady state. It is the latter, however, that has preoccupied the traditional approach to convergence analysis. This paper describes a body of research that overcomes this shortcoming in the traditional approach. The new findings--on persistence and stratification, on the formation of convergence clubs, and on the distribution polarizing into twin peaks of rich and poor--suggest the relevance of a class of theoretical ideas different from the production-function accounting traditionally favored. Copyright 1996 by Royal Economic Society.

Date: 1996
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