Italian Economy

One in four fears not being able to make it to the end of the month

Urban regions are replacing cities on the international economic scene, bringing out new power relations between territories and playing an unprecedented role in the territorial reorganization of capitalism. This is not a neutral process, and it contributes on the one...

ISTAT said Wednesday that 5.6 million people in Italy were living in conditions of absolute poverty in 2021, adding that this meant the scale of the problem remained at the record level registered the previous year. The national statistics agency...

Some 4 Italians in 10 will cut their consumption due to the Ukraine war, a report by Legacoop and the polling agency Ipsos said Tuesday. A whopping 95% of Italians is convinced that the conflict will bring repercussions for the...

Italian inflation was 6.5% in March, up from 5.7% in February, national statistics agency ISTAT said Friday. This was 0.2 percentage points on its preliminary estimate of 6.7%, issued two weeks ago. Catania showed the biggest price rise, at 8%,...

There were far fewer tourists than usual and no Americans, and this is a very big problem for all of the Amalfi Coast and the many businesses that depend on tourism – and especially American tourists – for their livelihood....

For the aid foreseen as a result of the pandemic of Covid-19, are we quite sure that the economic prescriptions of the "ants" of Europe are efficient or sustainable for a "cicada" like Italy?  In the absence of a written...