Decades of Tight Fiscal Policy Have Left the Health Care System in Italy Ill-Prepared to Fight the COVID-19 Outbreak

Franz Prante, Alessandro Bramucci and Achim Truger

Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, 2020, vol. 55, issue 3, 147-152

Abstract: Abstract Although austerity was particularly strong in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008 and its consequences in the euro area, Italian fiscal policies have been characterised by tough consolidation periods ever since the 1990s.

Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10272-020-0886-0 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

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:spr:intere:v:55:y:2020:i:3:d:10.1007_s10272-020-0886-0

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://link.springer.de/orders.htm

DOI: 10.1007/s10272-020-0886-0

Access Statistics for this article

Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy is currently edited by Christian Breuer

More articles in Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy from Springer, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().