ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ITALY

The area of Italy is 301.2 thousand square kilometers. km In administrative-territorial terms, the country is divided into 20 regions, and they, in turn, into 95 provinces, and those – into 8 thousand communes. Italy occupies a key position in the Mediterranean on the way from the countries of the Middle East with their richest […]

Directions of globalization

In modern conditions, the following main directions are distinguished, in which the process of globalization is developing most intensively: the formation of global monopolies (oligopolies); globalization of the financial sector; regionalization of the economy. The process of the emergence of global monopolies is developing simultaneously in two directions: first, through the formation of a global […]

Managed currency theory

This theory arose under the influence of the global economic crisis of 1929-1933, when the failure of the ideas of a neoclassical school, which advocated free competition and non-interference of the state in the economy, was revealed. The founder of this theory is Keynes, whose ideas took dominant positions in the 50-60s in Western economic […]