OECD indicators of structural policy show that policy changes in Italy since 1998 should have improved the environment … Italy (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Italy).<P>Mise en oeuvre des politiques en Italie : réglementation, administration publique …

Italy’s policy of fiscal consolidation and growth-friendly structural reforms has substantially improved its economic … flowed out of Italy to the core countries of the euro area. The Bank of Italy should continue to ensure that banks increase … financial crisis in Italy depends in part on action at the euro area level. As a member of the euro area, Italy has benefited …

boost productivity and enhance the flexibility of labour markets, ambitious fiscal consolidation and reductions in labour …

Compulsory school education in Italy produces poor results in terms of 15-year olds’ performance on PISA tests …

This paper discusses product market regulatory reforms in Italy over the past decade. Special attention is given to the …-oriented and less interventionist policies, has allowed Italy’s legal and institutional framework to come closer to the mainstream … of good regulatory practices in the OECD countries. With Italy having been initially a laggard on the regulatory reform …

This paper aims to identify structural reforms for better public spending management in Italy –in turn a critical need …

the allocation of public resources and promote catch up of the lagging regions. Italy has launched itself in the … population ageing, which is especially rapid in Italy, so that more tax bases should be devolved to them, especially as pension … effort, and Italy must decide in that context to what extent it can really afford to guarantee uniform national service …

growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the …