Convergence: Catch-up Time, Growth vs Initial Income and a Fitted Prediction
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In this lesson
You calculate how many years a poorer country needs to catch up, measure the convergence slope across ten fictional countries with SLOPE on growth against log initial income, and use the fitted line to predict growth for a new country.
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Lessons in this course
- Growth Rates, GDP per Person & Doubling Time: Rule of 70 vs the Exact Formula Locked
- The Cobb–Douglas Production Function: Output per Worker & Marginal Products Locked
- The Solow Model Step by Step: Simulating Capital per Worker toward the Steady State Locked
- The Golden Rule: Which Saving Rate Maximises Consumption per Worker? Locked
- Growth Accounting: Capital, Labour and the Productivity Residual Locked
- Convergence: Catch-up Time, Growth vs Initial Income and a Fitted Prediction Locked
- Purchasing-Power Comparisons and a Composite Development Index Locked
- Population Projections, Dependency Ratios and Income per Person Locked