Foreign trade and economic expansion in Italy, 1951-1990

This research explores the relationship between economic growth and trade sector performance in the context of the Italian experience over the post-Second World War period. In order to address the effects of external sector growth on Italy's pattern of industrialization and its overall economic growth and development, the focus of the analysis is directed towards the evolution of the trade commodity structure. The performance of the Italian trade sector is analyzed by a disaggregated approach to the country's trade sector based upon a commodity breakdown of the trade balance into twenty categories of tradeable goods. This procedure allows a thorough look at changes in competitiveness and product specialization experienced by the external sector over the postwar years. In addition, changes in the commodity structure of trade provide some evidence of how the allocation of domestic resources responds to external conditions. Italy's overall economic growth is also described from the perspective of the trade sector performance.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• de Paula, Marcelo Assis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Baer, Werner W.

• History, European
• Economics, General
• Economics, Commerce-Business

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1993 de Paula, Marcelo Assis

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9329009
(UMI)AAI9329009

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19917