TY - JOUR
T1 - Is there convergence across countries? A spatial approach
AU - Berry, Heather
AU - Guillén, Mauro F.
AU - Hendi, Arun S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research received support from the Population Research Training grant (NIH T32 HD007242) from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH)’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and from the Demography of Aging grant (NIH T32 AG000177) from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH)’s National Institute on Aging awarded to the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. We also acknowledge funding from the Penn Lauder CIBER institute for the collection of the data used in this paper.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - We analyze convergence across countries over the last half century as a result of globalizing forces. Drawing on theories of modernization, dependency, the world-system, political trade blocs, and the world-society, we consider economic, demographic, knowledge, financial, and political dimensions of convergence. Using a new methodology, we calculate the minimum volume ellipsoid encompassing different groupings of countries, finding that during the 1960-2009 period, countries have not evolved significantly closer or similar to one another, although groups of countries based on their core-periphery status or membership in trade blocs exhibit increasing internal convergence and divergence between one another.
AB - We analyze convergence across countries over the last half century as a result of globalizing forces. Drawing on theories of modernization, dependency, the world-system, political trade blocs, and the world-society, we consider economic, demographic, knowledge, financial, and political dimensions of convergence. Using a new methodology, we calculate the minimum volume ellipsoid encompassing different groupings of countries, finding that during the 1960-2009 period, countries have not evolved significantly closer or similar to one another, although groups of countries based on their core-periphery status or membership in trade blocs exhibit increasing internal convergence and divergence between one another.
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U2 - 10.1057/jibs.2013.72
DO - 10.1057/jibs.2013.72
M3 - Article
C2 - 25580035
AN - SCOPUS:84901063827
SN - 0047-2506
VL - 45
SP - 387
EP - 404
JO - Journal of International Business Studies
JF - Journal of International Business Studies
IS - 4
ER -