The gap has also increased between the north and the south. In the three programming cycles of European cohesion policy (2000-2006, 2007-2013 and 2014-2020), Brussels invested a total of 970 billion euros. Of these, Italy received 125 billion; resources which in these 20 years have been allocated to reducing the territorial gap between [...]

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If at a national level the ratio is now one to one, in the South, however, the overtaking has already occurred; we are talking about the comparison between the number of pensions paid and that of those employed. If in Italy the former is equal to 22.772.000 and the latter amounts to 23.099.000, in the regions of the South and […]

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Valditara: "Great attention from the Ministry to the schools of Southern Italy" The Ministry of Education and Merit has allocated 12 million euros for the year 2023 to the schools of Southern Italy with the aim of strengthening the educational institutions of Southern Italy and reducing territorial gaps. This investment represents a significant step forward to ensure the best […]

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Valditara: "Strategy to fill the delays of the South and multiply the opportunities for our children" Today in Catanzaro, at the Citadel of the Calabria Region, the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara presented the Agenda Sud: a project of the MIM aimed at the Regions of Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily. The interventions […]

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The process for the allocation of PNRR funds to strategic projects in the irrigation sector, results eligible for the selection of last September 30th, has begun.Administrative checks will be carried out on all those placed in a position useful for funding 'effective existence of the conditions for admissibility and the presence of authorizations [...]

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Giannola on Draghi and Mezzogiorno (by Adriano Giannola president Svimez) "The analysis that the then Governor of Bankitalia Draghi made already 11 years ago regarding the fact that regional policies cannot replace the good functioning of ordinary institutions is entirely acceptable ", Comments SVIMEZ President Adriano Giannola, according to whom" it is not that [...]

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The Minister of Economy and Finance, Roberto Gualtieri expressed, also on behalf of the Government, "great satisfaction with the outcome of the Assembly which, with a practically unanimous vote and unprecedented participation, decreed the success of the transformation , recapitalization and relaunch of Banca Popolare di Bari ". The operation, carried out according to logic and conditions consistent with criteria [...]

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At an interest rate charged by banks of 3,1% to medium-large enterprises in Trentino Alto-Adige in 2017, there is one of 9%, three times higher, for small enterprises in Calabria. This despite the decrease in interest rates implemented by the ECB through the unconventional policies of Quantitative Easing. The different weight of [...]

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The growth of the southern economy in the three-year period 2015-2017 has only partially recovered the economic and also social assets lost by the crisis in the South. Recovery driven by private investments, the contribution of public spending is missing. Strong inhomogeneity between the regions of the South: in 2017, Calabria, Sardinia and Campania recorded the highest rate of development. More employment [...]

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A four-year graduate woman who works in the South has an average monthly net income of 300 euros lower than that of a man (1000 euros versus 1300). Four years after graduation, the income gap between males and females, while remaining, tends to narrow. Of employed southern women, one in three [...]

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The recovery of the South continues, driven by its businesses: this, in summary, is the picture that emerges from the mid-year Check Up that Confindustria and SRM (study center of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group) dedicate to the economy and southern society. After a 2015 that saw the southern regions grow more than the national average, the anticipations [...]

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