Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79225 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IOS Working Papers No. 329
Publisher: 
Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Abstract: 
This paper deals with the hypothesis that natural resources are important in forming convergence clubs. We check this hypothesis by applying a dependence and an endowment measure of natural resource abundance and a regression tree analysis. The results indicate that for the Kazakh regions natural resources indeed play an important role in forming convergence clubs. It is further shown that rather natural resource endowment than resource dependence determines initial conditions and thereby convergence clubs.
Subjects: 
Convergence clubs
natural resources
regression tree
Kazakhstan
JEL: 
O13
O47
O53
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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