Amazon.com description: Product Description: The proceedings of an otherwise unidentified meeting (although the volume is published in association with Rivista di Politica Economica , SIPI, Rome, and CEIS, University "Tor Vergata," Rome). Addressing the questions of why some countries have grown much faster than others in the postwar period and over a longer timespan, and what a country can do to improve its growth and performance, the contributions focus in particular on two areas: the role that globalization of certain markets has played in the convergence of productivity levels over much of the world in recent decades, and the effect on economic growth of a country's membership in a specific economic area. Concludes with a section devoted to economic policy recommendations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.