The aim of this paper is to explain the economic causes and consequences of the sharp decline in Italy’s fertility rate … consequence of the decline in fertility in Italy has been a dramatic increase in the proportion of elderly dependent members of … of a sharp fertility decline, two options are viable: a market option, namely an increase in immigration, as in Italy, or …

set of horizontal studies (on the evolution of regulation, the spread of project financing, the growth of some large …

information on country risk, as well as on economic stability and growth. Some concluding remarks with a particular attention to …

Growth Diagnostics, GD, by Ricardo Hausmann, Dani Rodrik and Andrés Velasco, represents a useful and practical approach … in order to identify the most binding constraints to explain low economic growth. According to the authors the full list … feature which represents the major obstacle to the unleashing of the growth potential of a country. This paper has two major …