In recent decades Italy has seen large-scale inflows of immigrants from the less developed countries, including China. The paper focuses on Chinese immigrants in Italy’s fashion districts. Starting from the industrial district literature, and in particular the specific features of the district...

Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in providing such coordination. We argue that Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided...

En este artículo se examina la relación entre la Cooperación al Desarrollo y el desarrollo capitalista, prestando especial atención a los cambios en ambos en las últimas décadas. Se argumenta que la Cooperación al Desa¬rrollo forma parte de la propia estructura económica mundial...

This article discusses mainly issues related to the trade integration of Bulgaria with EU member countries from the period of the signing and enforcement of the Agreement on the accession of Bulgaria to the community. The common economic and trade policy of the EU towards the CEU countries falls...

This paper reviews the theoretical functions, history, and policy problems raised by the international capital market. The goal is to offer a perspective on both the considerable advantages the market offers and on the genuine hazards it poses, as well as on avenues through which it constrains...

The Central and Eastern European countries' prospects of becoming EU members depend heavily on, among other things, their per capita GDP levels. It is shown that the neoclassical growth model does not yet adequately describe the growth process in these countries. This makes a direct growth...

This paper discusses the process of creating a regional market. Special emphasis is placed on the prerequisites and problems to implementing the idea of a Balkan Free Trade Area. The marketing environment factors on the Balkans, the possible variants of segmenting the emerging market and...

In this paper, we develop a model of North-South trade to analyze the impact of a label certifying the absence of child labour in the export production of the South. When most eligible producers in the South can obtain the label, its impact is considerably reduced by a displacement effect...

This Paper focuses on policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization. We briefly review the effects of trade and investment liberalization on firms, focusing on within- industry effects. We postulate that governments’ role in supporting the process is to: (i) ensure that firms face...

For Africa, a regional customs union is unlikely to realise net welfare gains (in the sense of trade creation dominating trade diversion) which cannot be attained through unilateral trade liberalization. Unilateral reform has often failed in Africa, however. A regional customs union tied to...