Italy�s sluggish export performance with respect to world trade in the second half of the 1990s. In particular, the … countries. With regard to the first aspect, the paper finds that Italy�s export specialisation contributed to depressing total … export growth because world demand for traditional and specialised suppliers products expanded at a slower pace in the 1990s …

, Marche, Veneto and the Italian average over 1992-2002. It is shown that, over the period, the four regions� export … with stronger world export growth, though they show some advantages in industries whose world demand rose at intermediate …