Comment to 'Context and caution': Fragile states: a Catch-22
Giorgia Giovannetti | January 26, 2025Defining ‘fragile states’ is difficult – something well documented by Lars Engberg-Pedersen in his article 'Context and caution' – and yet there is a way of navigating these murky waters.
▶Giorgia Giovannetti
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Giorgia Giovannetti is full Professor of Economics at the University of Florence (since 2001) and part time Professor at the European University Institute, where she has acted as Scientific Director of the European Report on Development in 2009 and 2010. She holds a PhD in Economics from them University of Cambridge - UK, and has held positions at the Universities of Cambridge (fellow of Trinity College), Rome and Cassino. She has been visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and New York University (in Florence). Her research interests include macroeconomics, political economy, international trade and development economics. More precisely, she has been working extensively on development issues, on the link between trade and foreign direct investments, on international economic policy and on firms’ dynamics.Her publications include papers published in academic journals (among which: European Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Financial Development, Applied Economics) as well as in collected books and international series of working papers. She has presented the results of her work in many international conferences and seminars. She has directed the Research Centre of the Italian Trade Institute for two years and has been advising its President for the past 5 years. She has also been an advisor for the Italian Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Trade. She is the Scientific coordinator of the Fondazione Manlio Masi, observatory on the internationalization of small firms. She is member of the study group on globalization of OECD.