The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...

Nella prima parte di questo lavoro vengono analizzate alcune delle principali dottrine economiche che hanno contribuito a definire il fenomeno competitivo. Si è cercato di ricostruire storicamente la definizione di competitività attraverso i contributi più rilevanti del pensiero economico...

Knowledge of the characteristics of the short-term evolution of consumer prices for each country and for their average is important for better monitoring and forecasting of inflation in the euro area. In this paper we seek to verify to what extent the short-term variability of the HICPs can be...

English Abstract: In this work, we propose a new approach to constructing interval-based composite indicators based on the triplex representation. So, we measure the principal value of the indicator and simultaneously the value's uncertainty due to the different assumptions as different...

Italian Abstract:A quattro anni dalla pubblicazione del primo rapporto sulla sostenibilità urbana in Italia Per un’Italia Sostenibile: L’SDSN Italia SDGs City Index 2018 e a due anni dal Report di aggiornamento, la presente relazione espone i dati aggiornati al 2022 relativi ai comuni...

This paper aims to analyze the competitive capacity of the Sicilian production system in a region that has historically exhibited a delayed development. It argues, first, that innovation is the most critical driver for fostering competitiveness, as it enhances total factor productivity. Second,...

This contribution is, first and foremost, a reflection on the theme of political economy and the historical evolution of its ideas. It highlights some salient moments in the history of political economy and remembers the main protagonists who have contributed to the development of the discipline...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance and outline a profile of the medium and medium-large size italian multinational firms. The work concentrates specifically on industrial multinational firms of “fourth capitalism” - that is the set of the medium and medium-large...

In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...

This paper outlines the main features of knowledge-based economy in which the dynamics of technology, fueled by the spread of scientific and technological knowledge, are at the center of development processes. All this leads to a qualitative transformation and evolution, but also quantitative,...