In the last decade the Italian economy has underperformed compared both with the previous decades and with the main European countries. It is widely acknowledged that this evolution reflects unresolved structural problems, which have become more urgent in view of the major changes in the world...

International trade has increased, in the last few decades, however the economic divide between the advanced economies in the North of the world and the less developed of the South has increased.In the current state of affairs, characterised by the increasing integration between the commodities...