Il sorpasso (economics)
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Il sorpasso (Italian for "surpass") is a nickname for the 1987 Italian economy surpass of the British one (in absolute GDP terms), turning Italy into the 4th World's Economy, after the United States, Japan, Germany, and France. The surpass was the result of the Italian government recalibrating its statistics in order to account for its large underground economy.
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