A note on cross-country divergence in standard of living
A note on cross-country divergence in standard of living
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关于各国生活水平差异的说明
DOI：
10.1080/13504850110049388
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
K. Mazumdar
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作者：
K. Mazumdar
在过去的二十年里，各国“生活水平”的趋同是一个重要的现象，吸引了经济学研究人员的注意力。这些研究考虑到人均国内生产总值或劳动生产率的增长，以此作为衡量生活水平的标准。本研究试图用人类发展指数衡量生活水平，因为人类发展指数比收入或生产力更能反映人类福祉，并审查各经济体的生活水平在相当长的时期内，例如35年（1960-1995年）是否趋于一致。已尝试对全部样本以及人类发展的三个层次进行趋同检验。该研究使用Baumol引入的收敛性检验。测试表明，在几乎所有的情况下，已经观察到分歧。各类样本的人均真实的国内生产总值也存在差异。
Convergence in ‘standards of living’ across countries is an important phenomenon that drew attraction of the researchers in economics during the last two decades. These studies take into account the growth of per capita gross domestic product or labour productivity as a measure of standard of living. The present study attempts to measure the standard of living in terms of the human development index which reflect the human well-being better than income or productivity and examines whether standards of living converge across economies over a fairly long period of time, such as 35 years (1960–1995). The convergence test has been attempted for the full sample as well as for three levels of human development. The study uses the convergence test introduced by Baumol. The tests indicate that in almost for all the cases divergence has been observed. Divergence is also observed for per capita real gross domestic product for all types of sample.