Public Finance, «Federalism» and Southern Italy

F. Pica

Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, 2016, issue 1, 5-44

Abstract: This paper focuses on the current situation of «federalism» in Italy - i.e., on the combination of discriminations constituted by public sector among citizens living in different districts. Such issue is referred to Municipalities' finance, Regions' finance, paying particular attention to healthcare, State and welfare system's finance. With particular reference to this last aspect, this paper points out that most damage, especially for the years following the 2007- 2008 crisis, is caused by ordinary interventions carried out by the Republic - that is, by the whole series of public administration, directly or indirectly controlled by the State. This is particularly true for public investments and tax burden. In such context, the author believes national priorities are to be favoured; pursuing them, southern Italy will be significantly advantaged as well. Fundamental issues deal with public investment relaunch and support to economically disadvantaged people.

Keywords: Federalism; Finance of Territorial Authorities; Equalisation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1432/83370 (application/pdf)
https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1432/83370 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mul:jqyfkm:doi:10.1432/83370:y:2016:i:1:p:5-44

Access Statistics for this article

Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno is currently edited by Riccardo Padovani

More articles in Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno from Società editrice il Mulino
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().