KONVERGENSI TINGKAT PENDAPATAN STUDI KASUS 3 PROPINSI DI PULAU JAWA

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to examine the income convergence in three provincesin Java island such as West Java, Central Java, and East Java during time period2004-2007. Using  two concepts of convergences which are ï¢-convergence and ï³-convergence, this paper show that in three regions  there not found ï¢-convergenceand ï³-convergence. This result indicated  that  in  three provinces,  if there were anincreasing  in Gross Domestic Regional Product  (GDRP),  it always espoused withenhancing in growth GDRP, and enhancing in the gap  level in one regency to  theother regency. This means that the estimation result exactly confirmed the happeningof economy development with divergence not convergence.

Keywords: income convergences, regional economics, and divergence