The planning of a policy intervention aims at optimizing the decision-making process, resources allocation, outcomes of the intervention. The development of an integrated approach may contribute to achieve an effective and efficient planning. The article develops a protocol based on the adoption...

COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE OBJECTIVES OF GROWTH AND OF COHESION IN THE E.U. POLICIES The main objective pursued by European Union through the Europe 2020 Strategy is the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of its Member Countries, whereas social cohesion is one of the three objectives set by...

Il presente lavoro affronta il problema dello sviluppo nel Mezzogiorno, cogliendo l'innegabile dualismo territoriale Nord/Sud e le difficoltà concrete di promuovere nell'economia meridionale uno sviluppo endogeno. A tal proposito è stato posto in rilievo il ruolo degli attori locali...

Italian abstract: Questo articolo propone una riflessione metodologica sulla dimensione simbolico-culturale dei processi di sviluppo locale, in funzione dello sviluppo di modalità più efficaci di pianificazione e realizzazione degli stessi, secondo linee di sviluppo sostenibile sia dal punto...

The aim of this work is to provide information of use in evaluating Italian local public entities from two angles. 1) computerization and supply of web-services; 2) �accounting transparency� and use of accounting information for internal control and benchmarking. The analysis is based...

This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...

In this paper we examine the Italian regional policies launched in the second half of the 1990s and aimed at promoting the development of Southern Italy. Ten years on, the goals have not been reached, either in terms of social and economic development, or of the performance of firms receiving...

This paper proposes a new method to measure and analyse the typology of regional economic growth and convergence The model was originally developed by biologists in their study of morphological change of organisms. The paper investigates Italian regions using data of Gross Domestic Product per...