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| Title: | Structural Change And Economic Convergence Across The Eu-15 Regions: Can The Agricultural Sector Play a Role? |
| Authors: | Sassi, Maria |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Conference Paper |
| Abstract: | Economic and agricultural convergence across the EU regions has for a long time attracted
the attention of economists and more so in the recent decade following the EU enlargement.
Empirical contributions have referred explicitly or implicitly to the Solows model of
economic growth testing absolute and conditional b-convergence. The recent literature
suggests that the prevailing neoclassical and sectoral approach is not suitable to face the
implication of structural change on economic convergence whose understanding is key within
the current process of significant marginalization of agriculture and partly of industry in
favour of the service sector. In this context the aim of the paper is the understanding the size
and evolution of this change, the way in which it has affected aggregate economic
convergence and if the agricultural sector has influenced the process despite its small and
decreasing contribution to total GDP comparing the results from the neoclassical and Paci,
Pigliaru approach |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/7961 |
| Institution/Association: | Agricultural Economics Society>81st Annual Conference, April 2-4, 2007, Reading University, UK |
| Total Pages: | 24 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 81st Annual Conference, April 2-4, 2007, Reading University, UK
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