The essay sums up the results of a research focused on the development and on the current performancies of the «Distretto Agroalimentare di Qualità della Sibaritide» (DAQS). The DAQS involves 32 municipalities and 4 local labour systems. Just one of these local labour systems has a...

This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no impact on the growth of air pollution for the whole...

The economic and social backwardness of Southerner regions - theMezzogiorno - has been a long lasting problem of Italy since the Unity of the country. After the Second World War, Italian governments tried to improve economic development through special policies. At the same time, welfare...

This paper aims at analysing the effect of democratic institutions on environmental quality (carbon dioxide per capita, sulfure dioxide per capita) and at identifying potential channel transmissions. We use panel data from 1960 to 2008 in 122 developing and developed countries and modern...

This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no impact on the growth of air pollution for the whole...