The Theoretical Basis of the Extraordinary Intervention in the Italian Mezzogiorno (1950–1993)
Italian Economic JournalThis paper aims at (i) presenting a reconstruction of the theoretical framework under- lying the so-called extraordinary intervention in the Mezzogiorno; (ii) analysing the ways this was translated into economic policy; (iii) providing a tentative assessment of that experience.
Guglielmo Forges Davanzati +2 more
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Banking and Finance in the Italian Mezzogiorno: Issues and Problems
Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, 1996In this paper I analyze the specificity of the workings of capital markets, and in particular the behavior of the banking system in the Italian Mezzogiorno. As is well known, the South is the least developed part of the Italian economy: it represents a marginal area of an industrialized economic system, and can therefore be considered an industrialized
Marcello Messori
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Inner Civil Wars in the Confederate South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1861–1865
2015In the previous chapter, we looked at one of two possible ways to compare the American Civil War and southern Italy’s Great Brigandage, the civil war that followed Italian national unification—namely, through the emphasis on the north-south divide and the related idea of a secession of the southern part of the country from the national polity based in ...
Enrico Dal Lago
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Development Policies in the Italian Mezzogiorno: Lessons from the Past
2018M. Franzini
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The Italian Mezzogiorno: Does it Fit the Convergence Model?
1995The Italian Mezzogiorno has a number of characteristics similar to those manifested by the other regions located in Objective 1 areas along the southern periphery of the EU. Until the accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain, Italy’s southern regions had the lowest levels of development, the highest levels of unemployment and among the lowest supply of ...
Leonardi Robert
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Political Prisoners of the Italian Mezzogiorno: A Transnational Question of the Nineteenth Century
European History Quarterly, 2020Through a case study of a group of Neapolitan political activists incarcerated in Naples after the 1848 Revolution, this article aims to rescue the Italian convicts’ experience from its subsidiary status, presenting the prisons as a site of struggle and in particular highlighting the international, European dimension of political imprisonment in the ...
E. Bacchin
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The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History
The Journal of Southern History, 2004Notes on the Contributors PART I: THE TWO SOUTHS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Two Case-Studies in Comparative History: The American South and Italian Mezzogiorno E.D.Lago & R.Halpern The American South in Comparative Perspective P.Kolchin Peter Kolchin's American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno : Some Questions about Comparative History P.Bevilacqua ...
Ferdinando Fasce +2 more
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Mezzogiorno/centre-North: A two-region model for the Italian economy
Journal of Policy Modeling, 1988Abstract This paper analyzes the interdependence and the degree of domination and dependence between Italy's economically strong Centre-North and relatively less developed Mezzogiorno regions using two-region social accounting matrices (SAMs) for 1978 and 1984.
Mariano D'Antonio +2 more
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Is the Italian Mezzogiorno in Line with Other Objective 1 Regions in Europe?
2005The Italian Mezzogiorno, consisting historically of eight regions,1 has contained Objective 1 regions since the beginning of the Community’s cohesion policy in 1989. Even before that year, the Italian South as a whole (rather than the regions as distinct institutions) was the recipient of an extensive national development policy that began in the ...
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Geography and Access to Credit: The Case of the Italian Mezzogiorno
Italian Economic JournalCarlo Bottoni +7 more
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