Crecimiento económico sudamericano. Un análisis de convergencia económica: 1960 - 2015

Abstract

The present work determines the existence or not of convergence processes in South America from the year 1960 to 2015, for which data were collected of the Gross Domestic Product per capita of the ten main countries of the region. With the data we calculated the sigma and beta convergence, and in different ways were grouped countries to determine this last convergence. The results indicate the absence of marked processes of economic convergence in South America, but when grouping with the Atlantic countries confirms the statement of Baumol in which he mentions that the results of convergence only happen between rich countries, all these results are corroborated with the exploratory analysis of spatial data