Edition 2010

The XIV edition of the Laboratory's Global Outlook examined topics and reference markets have been selected among the most significant, both in the geo-economical reference areas and in the political-economical international landscape.

The analysed issues refer to two levels:

single countries and/or emerging regional areas

multilateral topics and contexts

These themes are worked out both by the IAI research team and by a number of experts from research institutes, universities and international institutions cooperating with the IAI.

The research aims to provide a set of proposals for Italy's foreign economic policy and processes of internationalisation, taking into consideration the difficulties caused by the present slow recovery of the global economy.

Services offered

The 2010 edition of the Global Outlook centres on five main types of activities:

• Fora
• Reports and Dossier
• Analyses and Research: Observatory on internationalization of Italian economy
• Workshops
• WTO Desk

The new edition aims to deepen the analysis on themes and areas that are significant for Italy's internationalisation. In order to improve analysis methods, two new initiatives will be undertaken: 

The first one aims at working out a set of reliability indicators concerning countries and reference areas that are significant for Italy's international positioning. This will be obtained by specific methodologies comprising both business environment indicators and strategic security indicators. The final task is to work out - with the cooperation of either Global Outlook members and external professionals - qualitative and quantitative evaluations concerning the so-called reliability level of specific market areas, by experimenting new methods which compare different analyses on the above mentioned themes. 

The second initiative aims at creating an Observatory on the internationalisation process of Italian firms and banks, within the main final markets. The observatory will lead to specific statistical and informative analyses on Italy's international presence within the main final markets. In this perspective, specific "density indicators" will be worked out, concerning the foreign Italian economic interests to be related to the priorities of the Italian foreign economic policy. The task of this monitoring activity consists in both analysing the feedback of Italian economy towards opportunities and constraints arising from the ongoing globalization process, and working out concrete proposals to increase the international competitiveness of Italy's productive system. The different proposals will be discussed with Global Outlook members and included in a Policy Paper to be presented to the Government authorities and to representatives from the Italian economic and institutional sphere during the final conference of the Global Outlook's new edition.

Fora 
The Fora are meetings limited to representatives from firms and institutions that are members of the Laboratory's Global Outlook. Discussions focus on specific topics presented by one or more guest speakers (representatives from institutions, analysts/consultants, academics).

In the 2010 programme, at the end of each meeting, an updating will be provided on the main emerging areas, and particular areas/countries to keep under observation because of their peculiar risk or dynamism conditions will be highlighted.
 (Agenda 2010)

Reports and dossiers
The reports and dossiers, produced in collaboration with the institutes that form the international network of the Global Outlook/Laboratory, monitor the evolution of areas and single countries, as well as the policies of the major European countries on the main emerging areas at the macro and micro-sectorial levels. Topics of current economic and political events are examined. The reports are available in hard copy and/or electronic format. 

Analyses and research
Ad hoc analyses are primarily aimed at identifying prospects for consolidation and development of the Italian presence in a given area. In parallel, issues of significance to the internationalisation policies of the Italian economic system (sistema Italia) are examined.

WTO observatory
The WTO and Trade Policies Programme aims at monitoring the WTO Doha Round negotiations development, in order to work out relevant suggestions for the participation of Italy to the international trade system.

Meetings diary

18 November 2009 
Global Outlook Final Conference, XIII ed.

17 December 2009 
First meeting on: "The crash of world trade: shot-term evolution or a new structural dynamic between trade and global production?", D.ssa Eleonora Padoan, Country Risk Analyst, SACE

29 January 2010 
Second meeting on: "Central and Eastern Europe after the crisis: scenarios of recovery and national responses", con Prof. Marek Dabrowski, Professor of Economics and President of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE),Varsaw

26 February 2010
Third meeting on: "Latin America in the world economy: current problems and perspectives", con Prof. Alfredo Valladao, Professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), in charge of the Mercosur Chair and Coordinator of the Working Group on EU-Mercosur Negotiations.

26 March 2010
Fourth meeting on: "The Russian economy after the crisis: still a member of the BRIC?", con Prof. Sergey Aleksashenko, Director of Macroeconomic Research at the State University, Higher School of Economics, Member of the Board at the Carnegie Center, Moscow, Russia.

22 April 2010 

Fifth meeting on: "The markets for Raw materials in today's world economy: between stabilization and speculation", with Prof. Olle Östensson, President, Caromb Consulting.

May 2009
The economic relaunching of mediterranean area: comparison of strategies (Europe, US and BRICs)

June 2010
The new phase of globalisation and the new scenarios after the crisis: which place for the Italian-system and Italian firms? Macro-sectorial aspects

June 2010

Emerging financial market: the new decoupling, the role of national funds and the evaluation of systemic risks

July 2010 
China, India and Pacific Asia: the third pole of global economy and the research of domestic market as push factor for growth

July 2010 
The African continent: agrowing phase or a risk for development?

October/November 2010 
FINAL CONFERENCE OF GLOBAL OUTLOOK 2010

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