This work presents and discusses some of the most important social indicators (height, education, life expectancy and human development index), referring to the Italian regions for the period spanning from 1871 to 2001. According to the data, there was a catching-up process of Southern Italy...

Italian Abstract: Quello degli intacchi e` un problema che ha riguardato la vita del Monte di Pieta` , ma non solo di quello scaligero, sin dai suoi esordi. Si tratta di illegalita` attinenti propriamente i servigi svolti dai ministri piu` direttamente coinvolti nella gestione del banco di...

Financial exclusion concerns 2.5 billion individuals and more than 450 million enterprises. The G20 countries are committed to the reduction of this phenomenon. The Bank of Italy has a fundamental role in the field of financial inclusion, both on a national and an international scale through...

The article presents the yearly series of Italian regional per capita product in the period 1891-2004. An estimate is also provided of the product in the North and South from 1861 until today. The following periods are singled out in the series of product: 1861-1913: formation of regional...

“Economic history” is at once the events of the past, and their subsequent reconstruction. Italy’s “traditional” North-South gap developed after Unification, as the South failed to match the industrial progress of the North; that regional failure seems tied to a broader, national...

In post-Unification Italy industrialization was ever sharply sub-regional. Initially industry was largely artisanal, and located in the former political capitals; factory industry was instead attracted by the waterfalls of the subalpine Northwest. From the 1880s, as modernization accelerated,...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro viene presentato l'Archivio Storico del Credito in Italia (ASCI) che raccoglie e armonizza i dati di stato patrimoniale di circa 2.600 aziende di credito operanti in Italia tra il 1890 e il 1973, per un totale di oltre 41.000 bilanci. La ricostruzione incorpora...