Are poorer countries catching up to richer ones? Using international income data, we test whether poorer countries grow faster and whether income gaps across the world are shrinking, and we see how the answer changed after 2000. This Stata tutorial comes with an interactive app that runs in your web browser.
Why have poor countries grown faster than rich ones since around 2000, after decades of falling behind? We reproduce a 2021 study by Kremer, Willis and You showing that the policies, institutions and schooling that predict growth have themselves become more alike across countries. This Stata tutorial comes with an interactive app that runs in your web browser.
An introduction to the Solow growth model and its convergence prediction