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LOCATION:Braamfontein Campus West NCB 247, New Commerce Building
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kevin Nell from the University of Johannesburg  will deliver a talk based on a paper, Conditional Divergence in the Post-1989 Globalisation Period. The paper shows that conditional convergence in per capita income, as a robust empirical regularity across countries, may have dissipated in the post-1989 globalisation era. There is evidence of conditional divergence over the period 1990-2016, with growth-reducing structural change emanating from greater trade openness and a slower rate of technology catch-up in developing countries identified as potential explanations. The results further show that conditional divergence can only be ceased subject to some initial, quality-adjusted level of educational attainment. One implication of conditional divergence is that the growth accelerations observed in many developing economies since the late-1990s may not be sustainable.
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Professor Kevin Nell from the University of Johannesburg  will deliver a talk based on a paper, Conditional Divergence in the Post-1989 Globalisation Period. </strong><p>The paper shows that conditional convergence in per capita income, as a robust empirical regularity across countries, may have dissipated in the post-1989 globalisation era. There is evidence of conditional divergence over the period 1990-2016, with growth-reducing structural change emanating from greater trade openness and a slower rate of technology catch-up in developing countries identified as potential explanations. The results further show that conditional divergence can only be ceased subject to some initial, quality-adjusted level of educational attainment. One implication of conditional divergence is that the growth accelerations observed in many developing economies since the late-1990s may not be sustainable.</p>
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SUMMARY:Conditional divergence in the post-1989 globalisation period
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