In questa nota si discutono le recenti ricerche quantitative sulla storia economica italiana post-unitaria. Si valutano, sulla base di tali ricerche, alcuni recenti contributi alla letteratura sul dualismo tra Nord e Sud d’Italia. Infine si propongono due schemi teorici, basati su categorie...

Using data on the 20 Italian regions for the period 1970-1995, I examine whether the presence of social capital, as reflected in a number of different measures collected by Putnam (1993), affects economic productivity. I find three types of effects. First, social capital, when treated as an...

Faire parler de son territoire, le rendre attractif et visible pour des cibles internationales est une priorité pour les grandes agglomérations. De ce fait, les outils de marketing territorial et de land branding deviennent de plus en plus sophistiqués. Les outils d’attractivité, de...

Canadian businesses face costly red tape when they want to do business across provincial borders; a problem that is hindering business expansion and economic growth, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Registering in Harmony: The Case for Pan-Canadian Corporate...

Francúzske prezidentské a parlamentné voľby 2012 zmenili politickú mapu v krajine. Nicolas Sarkozy sa stal len druhým francúzskym prezidentom piatej republiky, ktorému sa nepodarilo obhájiť mandát a podobne ako Valéry Giscard d'Estaing v roku 1981 aj on stratil mandát v prospech...

Vývoj v Iráne po roku 1979 a situácia v regióne postsovietskej Strednej Ázie a prikaspickej oblasti po skončení studenej vojny boli a sú predmetom zvýšeného záujmu medzinárodnej verejnosti. O vysokom destabilizačnom potenciáli, ktorý sa v oblasti nachádza, bolo napísaných...

Since the end of the 1990s, local governments in Japan have enacted Information Disclosure Ordinances, which require the disclosure of official government information. This paper uses Japanese prefecture-level data for the period 1998–2004 to examine how this enactment affected the rate of...

L’articolo propone un’analisi concettuale dei fondamenti del Modello Sociale Europeo come sistema di welfare multilivello. In particolare, espone l’importanza della sussidiarietà amministrativa tra i diversi livelli della governance europea come un elemento centrale della cittadinanza...

The water debate in relation to poverty alleviation has one dimension that is often sidelined: its relationship with public governance. This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. It argues that public governance of...