We investigate the evolution of the economy of the four provinces of the Marche region using information derived from international trade flows. Although mainly descriptive, the analysis reveals several aspects on the changes of their economic structure associated to economic growth. We first...

<font face="CMBX12"> </font><p>  This paper gives evidence to a stylized fact often disregarded in international trade empir-ics: countries' diversification. In the last fifteen years, the growth of world trade coexistedwith the tendency of countries to reduce the specialization of their export compositionalong the...</p>

The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who...