Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Angus Maddison Title: L?Occidente e il Resto del Mondo nell?economia mondiale: un?interpretazione Maddisoniana e Malthusiana dal 1000 al 2030 Abstract: The West and the Rest in the World Economy: 1000-2030 Maddisonian and Malthusian Interpretations - This paper analyses the forces determining per capita income levels of nations over the past millennium and the prospects to 2030. In the year 1000, Asian countries were in the lead. By 1820, per capita GDP in western Europe and the US was twice the Asian average. The divergence had grown much bigger by 1950, but by the 1970s, several Asian countries- Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Hong and Singapore had achieved considerable catchup. Since then, there has been a major surge in China and the beginning of a similar phenomon in India. As a result, the Asian share of world income has risen steadily and by 2030, will be fairly close to what it was in 1820. I conclude by comparing my analysis with the Malthusian interpretation of Oded Galor. Classification-JEL: Keywords: world economy, economic growth Note: Pages:7-30 Volume: 2009/27 Year: 2009 Issue:27 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=37860&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/ARG2009-027001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aurelio Bruzzo Title: La programmazione regionale in Italia: una rassegna della letteratura economica Abstract: Regional Planning in Italy: an Overview of the Economic Literature - The paper contains (exposes) a brief overview on the scientific debate among Italian scholars since the 1960s on Regional Economic Planning, understood as socio-economic planning carried out by regional administrations. Aim of this work is to verify the Italian contribution to the wider international debate, developed in the same period and directed to advance the discipline both theoretically-methodologically and in its concrete implementation. The main conclusion reached is that Italian regionalists have induced during 1990s some Regions to adopt, at a higher government level and in a decidedly wider territorial context, the strategic planning model hitherto applied to urban and metropolitan areas in both Italy and abroad. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Planning Policy and Models, Regional Development Policy. Note: Pages:31-62 Volume: 2009/27 Year: 2009 Issue:27 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=37861&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/ARG2009-027002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maurizio Mistri Title: Intermodalit? e interportualit? nel sistema di trasporto merci in Italia Abstract: Intermodality and inland terminals in the system of freight transport in Italy - Europe is struggling to avoid losing position on international markets and in other policies, long, points on an integrated transport policy, namely for a transport network that sees the connection between its various functional components. Italy is part of production networks in Europe and is necessarily part of the process of building an integrated transport system which is based on intermodality. The paper examines the problems that exist in Italy as regards the implementation of an organic transport policy. Under consideration is the structure of the Italian inland terminals, and more, are the deficiencies in the policy for the intermodality. Severe criticism is moved to the choices made in the field of high speed, because the choices made so far do not address the problem of intermodal freight. Classification-JEL: Keywords: intermodality, inland terminals, high-speed railway Note: Pages:63-82 Volume: 2009/27 Year: 2009 Issue:27 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=37862&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/ARG2009-027003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fulvio Adobati Author-Name: Vittorio Ferri Title: Infrastrutture e compensazioni: considerazioni a partire dalle evidenze lombarde Abstract: Infrastructure and compensation: considerations from the Lombard context evidence The infrastructure planning is a controversial subject and difficult to deal with, in terms of institutional responsibilities and technical choices. The development of evaluation procedures and the recruitment of environmental compensation measures show an increase in attention around the contextualization of local infrastructure. This contribution, through the experience of Lombardy in place, puts to the fore the search for forms of integration of planning with the planning of infrastructural area, assuming the infrastructure project which array of geographies of voluntary co-planning. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Infrastructure programs, compensation, spatial equalization, co-planning Note: Pages:83-98 Volume: 2009/27 Year: 2009 Issue:27 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=37863&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/ARG2009-027004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giulio Buciuni Title: Sistemi produttivi locali e competizione globale. Analisi di due regioni industriali: la produzione legno-arredo in North Carolina e nel Nord-Est italiano Abstract: Local manufacturing clusters and global competition. Analysis of two industrial regions: the furniture industry in North Carolina and in the North-East of Italy - This article explores the international upgrading processes taking place within two furniture industrial clusters: the Distretto dell?Alto Livenza in Friuli Venezia Giulia and the cluster of High Point in North Carolina. The choise to direct the research activity on these industrial regions comes from the evidence that both the clusters have recently faced the outsourcing of numerous manufacturing activities. Starting from this remark, the study?s objectives are oriented to detect the motivations that have led the outsourcing processes and the related consequences on the industrial regions and to analyze how High Point and the Alto Livenza are changing their international boundaries from both the production and the distribution perspective. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Industrial clusters, value chain, globalization Note: Pages:99-114 Volume: 2009/27 Year: 2009 Issue:27 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=37864&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/ARG2009-027005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: n.d. Title: Abbiamo pubblicato Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:115-120 Volume: 2009/27 Year: 2009 Issue:27 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=37865&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/ARG2009-027006 Number: 6