دراسة تقارب الناتج الداخلي الخام الفردي خلال الفترة 1970-2015 : دراسة قياسية باستعمال نماذج المعطيات الطولية الديناميكية

Abstract EN

The purpose of this article is to study the convergence of the gross domestic product per capita of a set of countries.

In order to take into account the individual and temporal specificities of growth phenomena, we use dynamic panel data econometrics.

Our sample consists of 121 heterogeneous countries (developed and under development) and do not have the same structural economic characteristics (savings or investment rate, population rate, etc.) over the period 1970-2015.

We also rely on the estimation of the Mankiw Romer Weil model (1992) where the economic convergence of countries is explained by a combination of factors aimed at reducing the income gap per capita by using the β absolute convergence and conditional and δ convergence tests.

The results show that the conditional convergence hypothesis appears more testable than the absolute convergence hypothesis.

The absolute convergence hypothesis gave weak results.

The results also show the absence of convergence clubs in this case.