Italian Abstract: L'autore analizza l'eredità di Luigi Spaventa in qualità di Ministro del Bilancio italiano.L'autore attinge a reminiscenze personali presso il Ministero del Tesoro e si concentra in particolare sul dualismo nello sviluppo economico dell'Italia e sull'approccio di Spaventa al...

The author analyses the legacy of Luigi Spaventa as Italian Minister for the Budget. The author draws on personal reminiscences at the Ministry of Treasury, and focuses in particular on dualism in Italy's economic development and Spaventa's approach to the problem of the underdevelopment of the...

The paper stems from the end of a special program in Southern Italy (1993), viewing it as more than just an episode of institutional reform, but as the start of a process of changes in territorial development policy. How this process led to an overhaul of the tools at central and local level is...