In this paper we show the balance of knowledge deficit in Peru compared to the surplus of its trade balance and the necessity to transform the structure and technological coefficients of exports to close this knowledge gap. We analyze major economic policies that could help in closing the gap,...

This paper aims at analysing the importance of the great steel plant ILVA in Taranto. This factory, the largest in Italy for the number of its direct employees, is also the largest steel plant in full cycle in Europe; it makes a significant contribution to the safeguard and promotion of...

This essay analyses trends in the growth of heavy industry controlled by Italian and foreign capitals and established for many years in strategic areas of the Italian Mezzogiorno. With the aid of data, many of them unpublished, what emerges is a picture of the current situation outlining the...

In this paper we analyse economic development through the lenses of a newly developed index the structural modernization index. This index combines two dimensions that have been widely invoked as prime drivers of economic development namely, structural change and technological catch up. For each...