This paper provides a first reading of the macroeconomic data and the main social indicators taken from the SVIMEZ volume 150 anni di statistiche italiane: Nord e Sud. 1861-2011, Il Mulino, 2011. Divided into three parts, the first one aims at rebuilding long-term trends in 150 years, in which...

Demand versus supply oriented policies have always been confronting each other in the long story of the public intervention for the economic and social development of Southern Italy. Many years after 1992, when the "intervento straordinario" has been dismanteld, the so-called "nuova...

In this paper we analyze the Italian Banking System evolution since the end of XIX century and the role that banks played for the development of the Southern Italy. We show that in the past, especially between the early Fifties and the early Seventies the southern banking system structure and...

Over the years, the international tourist movement has considerably expanded and this has reinforced the idea that such a sector can have a major role on the growth of Mezzogiorno's economy and on reducing the gap with the Centre-North. This paper aims at analysing trends in the South during the...

The effectiveness of policies of «tax advantages» in Italian weak areas' favour has to be evaluated taking into account the general framework of law on «fiscal federalism». Within such a framework, income tax is prevalent: the territorial distribution of this tax revenue depends largely on...

The issue of public expenditure used to reduce our Country's imbalances and of the aims to be pursued in order to achieve such reduction, as well as of the way such aims could be accomplished, has been tackled since development policies for the Mezzogiorno started. This issue has been left over...

The «urban regeneration» which is emerging today in Italy was founded in the wake of a line which has risen in Great Britain since the mid-70s of the twentieth century. Among the many European experiences, those of Glasgow and Bilbao are cited, where between the middle and the end of the '80s...