, theorised by Kaname Akmatsu in the 1930s to explain export-driven development patterns in Japan, and neglected for a long time …. Through the calculation of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA, or Balassa) index of import and export of a group of goods …

development. The relation between the developing countries� market shares and sectoral productivity in Italy, both disaggregated …

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 …