The drivers of regional growth in Russia

Abstract

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Regional inequality in Russia: Anatomy of convergence

“…Durand-Lasserve and Blöchliger (2018) find conditional beta-convergence over 2005-2015. Lehman et al (2020) exploit a modified version of conditional beta-convergence and also find convergence even over a longer period, 1996-2017 -in contrast to the earlier study, Lehmann and Silvagni (2013). Carvelli (2020) considers the period 1994-2015 and discovers that beta-convergence is accompanied by divergence in differences between the regional incomes and their sample average.…”

“…Many of them use the regional GDP per capita as the income indicator, yielding contradictory results. Lehmann and Silvagni (2013), using data for 1995-2010 and betaconvergence, sigma-convergence, and distribution dynamics methodologies, find no evidence of convergence. Akhmedjonov et al (2013) test stationarity of the gap between regional and national GDP per capita in 2000-2008 for every region, thus deeming a common trend in these two series to be an indication of convergence.…”

Regional development in Lithuania: A tale of two economies

“…The gains of Lithuania's globalising economy have concentrated in a few regions that have a qualified workforce and are well integrated in global value chains (Rusticelli and al, 2018 [1]). As many countries, Lithuania is converging towards the OECD average, while its individual parts are diverging (Bartolini, Stossberg and Blöchliger, 2016 [2]) (Bisciari, Essers and Vincent, 2020 [3]). Only four out of 60 municipalities registered population growth over the past decade, namely the largest cities and the resorts along the Baltic coast (Figure 2 A).…”

Beyond Beta-Convergence: Convergence in Differences and its Application to the Russian Regions

“…Nevertheless, there exist general robust findings which describe well the evolution of income disparities between the Russian regions, mainly measured by the beta-convergence models. Indeed, there is a clear common evidence for beta-divergence between the Russian regions during the first part of the transition period (Popov, 2001;Dolinskaya, 2002;Fedorov, 2002;Berkovitz & Dejong, 2002;Carluer, 2005;Benini et al, 2007;Badunenko et al, 2010) whereas evidence of beta-convergence has been found in the "Putin era" (Akhmedjonov, Chi, & Izgi, 2013;Oshchepkov, 2015) which in particular increased during the last decade (Vakulenko, 2016;Durand-Lasserve et al, 2018;Kaneva & Untura, 2019).…”