ITALY IN THE WORLD ECONOMY

2016-2017 Annual Report

Focus: digital commerce and the fourth industrial revolution

by ICE - Italian Trade Promotion Agency - Printed in August 2017

Index of Content

FROM INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS TO THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

ITALIAN FIRMS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
1. The global economic picture
2. Italy: an overview
3. Regions and main countries
4. Sectors
5. The territorial base
6. Firms
7. Policies for internationalization
8. Concluding remarks

STATISTICAL TABLES WORLD AND EUROPEAN UNION
1.1 World trade and foreign direct investment
1.2 Regional shares of world merchandise exports
1.3 Regional shares of world merchandise imports
1.4 Top ten world merchandise exporters
1.5 Top ten world merchandise importers
1.6 Inward foreign direct investment: main recipient countries
1.7 Outward foreign direct investment: main investor countries

ITALY
2.1 Italy’s balance of payments
2.2 Italy’s trade in goods and services
2.3 Constant-market-shares analysis of Italy’s share of world exports
2.4 Italy’s foreign trade by region and main countries
2.5 Size of markets and Italian exports’ market shares
2.6 Top ten destination countries of Italian exports
2.7 Top ten countries of origin of Italian imports
2.8 Merchandise exports and imports by sector: values
2.9 Merchandise exports and imports by sector: volumes and prices
2.10 Italy’s market shares of merchandise exports by sector
2.11 Merchandise exports of the Italian regions
2.12 Internationalization of Italian firms
2.13 Percentage distribution of workers and sales revenues of Italian firms’ foreign affiliates by geographical region of investment and size class (number of workers) of the investor
2.14 Public support for internationalization: overview of promotional and financial services

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