In the most recent years, the pattern of economic development of the Italian Mezzogiorno has given signs of a remarkable change in progress. Up to the beginning of the 1990s, the whole area was by and large characterised by a single macroeconomic model of income and employment, whose dynamics...

Within the European arena, the heterogeneity of socio-economic conditions among Italian regions is a clear example of intra-border imbalances. Though, the different degree of development characterising the various areas of Italy is far from being an exception in the Union, where diversity across...

Supply chain regulation can be a formidable tool to protect a country's resilience against unexpected disruptions of trade, investment and the supply of skilled labour. Its utility, however, may erode when geopolitics rather than economics becomes the primary objective. This paper examines the...