Will Technology Kill Convergence?

A World of Convergence

NACE NAICS convergence project

Convergence in social service provision also required strengthening the linkages and coordination of CBSS with other national programmes supported by UNICEF.

And the forces of convergence exploded.

So my story really is as much about that convergence in the Americas as it's a convergence story in Eurasia.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence. Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

There's a lot of serendipitous convergence here.

Convergence in planning for child related goals.

The discussions showed a considerable convergence of views.

Those points of convergence deserve thorough consideration and reflection.

I think they re two quite different modes divergence and convergence.

I think we can reach a good degree of convergence.

(a) Convergence and privatization in telecommunications institutional and other responses.

There was a convergence of views on two broad points.

The latter agreement and Decision make no provision for substantive convergence.

It may be that the social singularity ahead is the one that we fear the most a convergence of catastrophes, of environmental degradation, of weapons of mass destruction, of pandemics, of poverty.

Experience showed the need for convergence between the two forms of law.

The key to enabling continued convergence even at a fairly rapid pace is good political governance. Developing country governments must implement policies aimed at managing the impending transformation, while maintaining social solidarity and cohesion.

Because what it does is allow a convergence like we've never had before.

So this dream is really enabled by the convergence of two known technologies.

A possible convergence of interests lies with expanded South South trade and investment.

Moreover, the project provided indications of the extent of convergence achievable in participating countries.

What results UNDP has achieved have been based on convergence among the following elements

45. Globalization and macroeconomic policy convergence reduce the degrees of liberty available to Governments in addressing particular social problems as they impose rigid targets on public expenditures and limit the possibilities of counter cyclical fiscal deficit.

One theory, endorsed by the head of Germany s ruling Social Democratic Party, Franz Müntefering, is that Germany is already where the others still want to be. Slow German growth, he maintains, is a sign of natural convergence.

First, the new architecture must facilitate the convergence of the security, humanitarian and development perspectives.

Likewise, a convergence of views on an appropriate forum, or mechanism, has not yet evolved.

Improved convergence of approaches, programme strategies and interventions will lead to greater effectiveness and enhanced outcomes.

The concentration on six provinces was meant to model initiatives for decentralization and inter sectoral convergence.

Still greater policy convergence and harmonization are required if these efforts are truly to gain momentum.

A project to study convergence between the European and North American industry classifications was initiated in 2000.

The process of convergence of evidence and the careful cross checking and review of testimony requires time.

2. In the course of the discussions, a broad convergence of views emerged on the following conclusions

Beyond digitization, dramatic changes in the computing and telecommunication industries were also a force behind such convergence.

There is, however, increasing convergence in the pattern of delegation of authority among the funds and programmes.

304. The Committee notes that the economic recession facing Finland and the policies adopted to meet the convergence criteria for participating in the European economic and monetary union have had significant consequences for the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights by the Finnish population as a whole, and by vulnerable social groups in particular.

The quasi unison statements and the virtual convergence on the subject in the general debate speak for themselves.

Kozul Wright R and Rowthorn R (2002). Globalization and the myth of economic convergence. Economie appliqué, vol. LV

His Majesty's Government is committed to resolving the problems confronting Nepal with patriotism as the point of convergence.

And I had a happy brush with convergence until, kind of, Warner basically has to liquidate the whole thing.

At the same time, it showed the limitations in the convergence effort that ISIC and other classifications could achieve.

Over the past 20 years, convergence had again come to be seen as the inevitable result of free trade.

Third, instead of futile opposition between liberal and social models of economic development, we need a confrontation of the experiences of Great Britain and Sweden, on the one hand, and Germany and France, on the other. Are these experiences mutually exclusive, or is convergence possible?

The second broad point of convergence was the need for an improved mechanism to achieve cooperative debt workouts from crises.