This paper investigates the Italian debate on municipalization between the 1880s and the 1920s and is divided into two parts. The first deals with the emergence of the municipalization in the late nineteenth century as a component in the birth of the Social State. The second part concerns the...

For catching-up countries the convergence path is to be accurately monitored and guided to non inflationary growth, especially for accession countries to the Eu. In this paper, we argue that a strategic planning on the development of tourism for a specific region within a wider macroeconomic and...