The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...

The paper first develops Region-based mid-long term projections of public health care expenditure for Italy; then wonders about the most appropriate rule for financing it, distinguishing between its efficient part and the part absorbed by inefficiencies of regional governments. The first part...

The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important evidence emerges on the historical value of the...

We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...

The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Italy and Italian geographical repartitions. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via...

The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three different schemes of financing are hypothesised, with three different levels of solidarity between Regions. Financing is always supposed to cover the entire exigency of...

Comunicazione per il CONVEGNO DI STUDI "La riforma sociale (1894-1935) nel sistema politico, sociale e politico-economico italiano e internazionale, Torino, 30-31 marzo 2001, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi; Dipartimento di Studi politici, Università di Torino, Dipartimento Polis,...

Italian Abstract: La relazione, dopo aver dato conto dell'evoluzione dei rapporti di potere all'interno dell'Unione (fra Istituzioni, fra UE e Stati membri, con cenni alla c.d. troika), si concentra sulla libertà "dai" trattati, intesa principalmente come possibilità di rinegoziarli e...

This paper evaluates the economic effects of Structural Funds in Italy. After presenting the distribution of Funds across Italian Regions over the period 1996-2007 and documenting how the Regions manage the financial resources recevied by EU, the paper assesses the impact of Structural Funds on...

The paper outlines the main current issues concerning Public Finance in Italy. It is divided in three parts. The first part discusses the overall budget policy. Italy is in need to support the recovery from economic crisis, however budget action is limited by European constraints. Different way...