Absolute and conditional convergence within Sonora state municipalities, 1989- 2004

• Main Authors: Joaquín Bracamontes Neváre, Antonio Escamilla Díaz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2008-07-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: Ciencias sociales; Economía; Precio; Competencia; Capitalismo; Demografía; Ciclos económicos; Comercio
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/169

This paper tries to identify the existence of convergence, absolut as muchas conditional, for the municipalities that conform the state of Sonora. Taking as abase the methodologic excercise of Mankiw, Romer and Weill (1992) that considersthe first model of Solow (1956) and makes an extension of it including thehuman capital, evidence shows that there is no tendency for poor municipalitiesto grow more quickly than rich municipalities, which means that there is no processof convergence –nor absolute or conditional– in the municipalities of Sonora,independently of the development layer in which these are classified: municipalitieswith high, average or low development.