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Hadizadeh, A. (2019). Testing the Convergence Clubs Hypothesis among MENA Countries. Iranian Economic Review, 23(2), 437-449. doi: 10.22059/ier.2019.70304
Arash Hadizadeh. "Testing the Convergence Clubs Hypothesis among MENA Countries". Iranian Economic Review, 23, 2, 2019, 437-449. doi: 10.22059/ier.2019.70304
Hadizadeh, A. (2019). 'Testing the Convergence Clubs Hypothesis among MENA Countries', Iranian Economic Review, 23(2), pp. 437-449. doi: 10.22059/ier.2019.70304
Hadizadeh, A. Testing the Convergence Clubs Hypothesis among MENA Countries. Iranian Economic Review, 2019; 23(2): 437-449. doi: 10.22059/ier.2019.70304

Testing the Convergence Clubs Hypothesis among MENA Countries

Article 8, Volume 23, Issue 2, Spring 2019, Page 437-449  XML PDF (795.31 K)
DOI: 10.22059/ier.2019.70304
Author
Arash Hadizadeh email
Department of Economics, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
Abstract
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his paper is to study the convergence of per capita income. Convergence clubs hypothesis is one of the forms of convergence hypotheses, implying that countries with the same initial level of economic development, technology, and government policies, tend to be similar in per capita income and thus have a tendency to cluster around a small number of poles. In order to test the hypothesis of the formation of the convergence clubs among 15 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries for the period of 1990–2015, we used a non-parametric analysis (distribution dynamics approach). The distribution dynamics of real per capita GDP showed that “twin peaks” were being formed in the MENA region.
 
Keywords
Keywords: Convergence Club; Distribution Dynamics; MENA Countries. JEL Classification: O41; O47; C21
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