Italy�s sluggish export performance with respect to world trade in the second half of the 1990s. In particular, the … analysis focuses on the role of product specialisation in relation to world trade growth and competition from emerging … export growth because world demand for traditional and specialised suppliers products expanded at a slower pace in the 1990s …

structure of world demand. Only Veneto shifted its specialisation from low-tech to high-tech, while the other regions became … with stronger world export growth, though they show some advantages in industries whose world demand rose at intermediate … speed. Over the decade the specialisation in the world fastest growing sectors grew for Veneto, was unchanged for Marche …