Witness the divergence in long run economic growth between the Euro 2012 co hosts.

A Year of Divergence

The Great Policy Divergence

The Messy Politics of Economic Divergence

But interest rate convergence caused economic divergence.

This means that the divergence is widening.

We are witnessing simultaneous global convergence (the narrowing of income, wealth, and knowledge gaps between countries) and local divergence (widening income, wealth, and knowledge gaps within countries).

Independent directors should have an important oversight role, as they do on other sensitive issues that may involve a divergence of interest between insiders and public investors.

On this view, risk aversion both reflects and reinforces a divergence between individual incentives (the desire to be reelected, reappointed, or promoted) and collective needs (fixing problems).

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

But there is another international income divergence that demands attention.

Divergence in policies and convergence in outcomes is not a realistic expectation.

The divergence of professional anthropology from medicine was never a complete split.

There is also a divergence of basic interests which must be recognized.

A similar divergence, though less acute, has appeared with respect to fiscal policy.

The pressure on policymakers to address the risks of divergence will increase next year.

The third, and most important, claim is the subject of Noah s The Great Divergence.

Reflecting the divergence in economic performance, Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

This divergence on fiscal policy has many causes, and no single shock will alter it.

It became apparent that there was a significant divergence in country practices in that area.

However, over reliance on Russia for a strategically vital commodity widens the divergence of interests between members, like Germany, that share a privileged partnership with Russia, and those, like Poland, that consider the Kremlin a threat.

First, the divergence of monetary policies between the US and other major economies is already universally understood and expected. Thus, the interest rate differential, like the US rate hike itself, should already be priced into currency values.

So, what if Europe and the US both enter a phase of prolonged budgetary adjustment while the emerging world stays on course? What if the divergence between the North and South within the G 20 widens further?

And this slide here is the best simplification of the Great Divergence story I can offer you.

In practice, however, these developments led to a sharp divergence from physics, particularly from 1950 to 1980.

Second, divergence of views on a possible fissile material treaty is one of the reasons for the impasse.

The process of globalization in the late twentieth century led to a sharp divergence of incomes between those who industrialized and broke into global markets and the bottom billion in some 60 countries where incomes stagnated for twenty years.

The divergence between how top executives and their companies shareholders fared raises a serious concern that the aggressive risk taking at Bear Stearns and Lehman and other financial firms with similar pay arrangements could have been the product of flawed incentives.

The importance of consultation between special procedures and UNHCR in the clarification or development of international standards which impacted upon the protection of refugees and asylum seekers, in order to avoid any divergence or confusion in that regard, was underscored.

Finally, instead of managing common challenges, as in 2009, the G 20 members will need to manage their divergence.

But, while global imbalances have preoccupied many observers, few have sought to explain the divergence in world savings behavior.

Generally speaking, parties concerned are now moving towards consensus on this issue, though divergence remains on some specific questions.

Thus, divergence over macroeconomic policy will continue at least as long as investors remain willing to buy US public debt.

All this only goes to show the sharp divergence of views among the members on the mandate of the FMCT.

Surveys of attitudes toward the evolving global economic system show a widening divergence among countries as well as subgroups within countries.

Of course, there is no theoretical limit on divergence. The problem is that exchange rate shifts now represent the only mechanism for reconciliation, and the divide between certain market valuations and their fundamentals has become so large that prices are vulnerable to bouts of volatility.

To prevent this, lawmakers should adopt safeguards for political spending decisions that would limit the divergence of such decisions from shareholder interests.

To put that into perspective, this red vertical bar here marks the divergence time of humans from chimpanzees, a mere seven million years ago.

The three hours of discussions in an informal, interactive mode lead me to conclude that there are more areas of convergence than of divergence.

We are among those who believe that the stalemate in which we find ourselves is a symptom of a political divergence on our main priorities.

Enlightened self interest, because if that economic divergence continues for another 40 years, combined with social integration globally, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Much of this costly divergence from the earlier projections can be attributed to the benign view of fiscal consolidation that UK authorities and the IMF shared.

We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages.

In recent years, divergence has occurred so that it is now unusual for the same engine to be used on a military type and a civilian type.

With so much of the monetary divergence now discounted, perhaps we should focus more attention on the other factors that could influence currency movements in the months ahead.