Once with the latest wave of globalization, economic inequality regains an important place in the developmental studies. If the purpose of the contemporary globalization viewed from a neoclassical perspective is to achieve a convergence of productivity levels and average incomes for the...

This paper provides a first reading of the macroeconomic data and the main social indicators taken from the SVIMEZ volume 150 anni di statistiche italiane: Nord e Sud. 1861-2011, Il Mulino, 2011. Divided into three parts, the first one aims at rebuilding long-term trends in 150 years, in which...

Demand versus supply oriented policies have always been confronting each other in the long story of the public intervention for the economic and social development of Southern Italy. Many years after 1992, when the "intervento straordinario" has been dismanteld, the so-called "nuova...

In this paper we analyze the Italian Banking System evolution since the end of XIX century and the role that banks played for the development of the Southern Italy. We show that in the past, especially between the early Fifties and the early Seventies the southern banking system structure and...

Over the years, the international tourist movement has considerably expanded and this has reinforced the idea that such a sector can have a major role on the growth of Mezzogiorno's economy and on reducing the gap with the Centre-North. This paper aims at analysing trends in the South during the...

The effectiveness of policies of «tax advantages» in Italian weak areas' favour has to be evaluated taking into account the general framework of law on «fiscal federalism». Within such a framework, income tax is prevalent: the territorial distribution of this tax revenue depends largely on...

This paper reports on the fundamental processes reshaping rural areas in Hungary. Using indicators of social composition of settlements, the first section demonstrates large-scale polarisation resulting in vast zones of social crisis on the peripheries. The proceeding sections explore that small...

This paper analyses Local Economic Development and examines the role and the significance of city’s internal environment forces. Furthermore the paper examines the role of enterprises, while the connection between city’s distinctive characteristics and development policies with firm...

The perspective of the Balkan countries’ integration in the economic and political space of the enlarged EU necessitates the unification of the Balkan space, through the unification of the areas’ spatial development axes. This fact is of major significance since the economic integration...