Microfinance industry has grown massively in the past decades. Even if it is commonly considered as an important development tool, the evidence of the socio-economic impact of microfinance is mixed, regardless of what methodology has been applied. The purpose of this study is to assess the...

We define public administrations (PAs) as productive units, and analyze the recent trends in PAs' productivity applying Sylos Labini's productivity function model. At the microeconomic level, we propose a model of government action for the production of public goods. At the macroeconomic level,...

Steindl's work on stochastic processes aims to describe the economy as in a state of imbalance, due to the fact that its starting conditions are an accident of history, and nobody has a clue what tomorrow will bring. This does not mean that we cannot imagine a balanced distribution – when the...

Italian Abstract: Analizziamo il ruolo dello Stato negli investimenti sociali (istruzione, servizi sanitari, ecc.), diversi da quelli delle infrastrutture. Lo facciamo perché, nell'attuale situazione economica e sociale, questo tipo di investimento, oltre a rafforzare il modello sociale...

Italian Abstract: Partendo dall'idea di Sylos Labini di interazione tra azione dello Stato e mercato, gli autori analizzano il sistema pensionistico italiano in termini di efficienza economica e redistribuzione del reddito.Testo del discorso tenuto alla conferenza "Paolo Sylos Labini e la...

Italian Abstract: Finora, la mancanza di dati coerenti e affidabili sulla microfinanza in Europa ha impedito di condurre un'analisi completa delle prestazioni degli istituti di microfinanza (IFM), in particolare la loro capacità di soddisfare le aspettative politiche in termini di obiettivi...

The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered simultaneously a global health crisis and a global economic crisis which have further deepened existing inequalities along several dimensions, including gender. Increasing gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work has been a primary outcome of the pandemic...