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ECONOMICS Special Feature: Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Italy Non-Member Economies Baltic States, February 2000 Brazil, June 2001 Bulgaria, April 1999 Romania, October 2002 Russian Federation, February 2002 Slovenia, May 1997 Federal Republic of Yougoslavia, January 2003 OECD Economic Surveys Italy ECONOMICS OECD Economic Surveys www.oecd.org Volume 2003/13 – August ISBN 92-64-10422-4 10 2003 13 1 P -:HSTCQE=VUYWW]: August 2003 ISSN 0376-6438 2003 SUBSCRIPTION (18 ISSUES) ITALY Economic Surveys Australia, March 2003 Austria, December 2001 Belgium, February 2003 Canada, September 2001 Czech Republic, April 2003 Denmark, July 2003 Euro area, September 2002 Finland, March 2003 France, July 2003 Germany, January 2003 Greece, July 2002 Hungary, June 2002 Iceland, April 2003 Ireland, July 2003 Italy, August 2003 Japan, January 2003 Korea, March 2003 Luxembourg, February 2001 Mexico, April 2002 Netherlands, January 2002 New Zealand, June 2002 Norway, September 2002 Poland, July 2002 Portugal, February 2003 Slovak Republic, June 2002 Spain, May 2003 Sweden, August 2002 Switzerland, May 2002 Turkey, December 2002 United Kingdom, December 2001 United States, November 2002 Volume 2003/13 Italy « Volume 2003/13 – August © OECD, 2003. © Software: 1987-1996, Acrobat is a trademark of ADOBE. All rights reserved. OECD grants you the right to use one copy of this Program for your personal use only. Unauthorised reproduction, lending, hiring, transmission or distribution of any data or software is prohibited. You must treat the Program and associated materials and any elements thereof like any other copyrighted material. All requests should be made to: Head of Publications Service, OECD Publications Service, 2, rue André-Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France. OECD ECONOMIC SURVEYS 2002-2003 Italy ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: – to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to contribute to the development of the world economy; – to contribute to sound economic expansion in member as well as non-member countries in the process of economic development; and – to contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, nondiscriminatory basis in accordance with international obligations. The original member countries of the OECD are Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The following countries became members subsequently through accession at the dates indicated hereafter: Japan (28th April 1964), Finland (28th January 1969), Australia (7th June 1971), New Zealand (29th May 1973), Mexico (18th May 1994), the Czech Republic (21st December 1995), Hungary (7th May 1996), Poland (22nd November 1996), Korea (12th December 1996) and the Slovak Republic (14th December 2000). The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD (Article 13 of the OECD Convention). Publié également en français. © OECD 2003 Permission to reproduce a portion of this work for non-commercial purposes or classroom use should be obtained through the Centre français d’exploitation du droit de copie (CFC), 20, rue des Grands-Augustins, 75006 Paris, France, tel. (3