Question Description
Please read Chapter 2.6
“Are Living Standards of Developing and Developed Nations Converging?” (p78-83) and discuss
whether developing countries are catching up per capita GDP with developed countries. If you do
not have the textbook, please go to JSTOR, find an academic article “A Contribution to the
Empirics of Economic Growth” by Gregory Mankiw, David Romer, and David N. Weil (The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107(2), 407-437, 1992) or “Unconditional Convergence in
Manufacturing” by Dani Rodrik (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 128(1), 165-204,
2013), and discuss the same question