The South of Italy experiences a serious gap in terms of human capital.The lessening of quantitative gaps is associated to persisting and significantqualitative gaps. Such gaps are just in part connected with a gap in investments.This indeed is noticeable for expenses in capital account - whose...

The importance of infrastructures investments is linked to their possibility of supporting aggregate demand in the short- and mid-period and of having an important effect in the long-period, by a structural rise of production level (so-called non-keynesian effect). Methodologies adopted in...

Recent international surveys have tested the education level of students from different countries, highlighting that Italian students are significantly behind other ones. Furthermore, such surveys agree to outline a differentiated landscape within Italy, in which Southern students show a lower...