: Must policy be focused on creation of new clusters in activities that have verified large positive effects elsewhere or … concepts as clusters and externalities. So, the remainder of this paper is organized as follows. After reflecting on the …

of growth path similarities to identify clusters of countries that grow at a similar pace and react in a similar way to … crises, and compares their dynamics in time. According to the results, coherently with globalization pressures, clusters have … processes, such as the European Union, have not influenced this trend. The extent to which these clusters are composed of …