If Italy is not too battered by the coming crisis, it will once again be thanks to those small and medium enterprises and those industrial districts so often given up for dying, if not already ...

Industrial districts have long since distinguished Italy's economy, representing all major "made in Italy" productions such as fashion, clothing, textiles, leather goods and shoes, wine ...

2012 is expected to be difficult, but there are many industrial sectors where sales abroad have recovered the record levels of 2008. And excellent reasons to believe that they will hold ...