Opinions

Creative industries: certain definitions have been made obsolete in a post-industrial world. Purely quantitative assessments are fine for judging industrial productivity, but it is high time to restore value to the many contributions made by culture and the arts

Managerial education: a look at the evolution of business schools and their relations with companies, according to SDA Bocconi School of Management, which is in the top echelon of European executive education. The trend is toward tailor-made Corporate Master courses

Since 2008, employment has dropped in the Southern regions, where the employment rate was already comparably lower. Without a concerted effort to rebuild labor relations and create incentives for manufacturers, the North-South gap will only widen

Public works respond to different needs according to the territory: roads, bridges and railways are usually built to match emerging demand. If the political imperative is to accelerate regional growth, proper sets of incentives need to be devised, with an eye on production and consumption levels

Immigrant workers are present in every region of Italy. Scattered empirical evidence points to a certain territorial disparity in integration processes. The imbalance could be due to the heterogeneity of social polices and to sharp differences in local tax bases

The alternatives to GDP to measure the wealth of nations are growing, and national statistical agencies are taking note. Some take into account a broader notion of well-being that considers social and environmental factors as well as income and other standard economic indicators