High prices of basic food pushed up total consumer price inflation in 2007 worldwide, not least in the EU neighbour countries. The European Neighbour Policy Mediterranean countries, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Gulf Cooperation Council were almost all affected by the global...

This paper investigates the consistency of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan with the economic and industrial policy objectives outlined in the "Next Generation EU" plan and the European Commission's New European Industrial Policy. We analyze official policy documents in order to...

This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous 'rationalities of failure,' either of...