The paper examines the effects of the globalization process in order to assess its advantages and its costs. Integration and growth of the world economy are identified as the principal economic manifestation of globalization. Accordingly, two criteria are adopted to measure its effects: the...

The identification of a meaningful correlation between production and infrastructure is not a easy task. This is true for two different reasons: first because data on core infrastructure is very much aggregated both with respect to the spatial distribution and with respect to the various kind of...