Italy Report 2005

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Italy in search of a project by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes   COMPETITIVENESS Innovate to compete

1. Competitiveness: what role for Italy in tomorrow’s world?
2. Italian industry: decline or decline?
3. The Mezzogiorno between development and backwardness
4. Generational transition in SMEs
5. Entrepreneurship, a new work outlet for immigrants
6. Small enterprises do not grow: craftsmanship in Italy

Sustainable development as a new economy: sustainable tourism

8. Italian tourism: the collapse of demand
9. The Bush effect, 2004: a good year for the stock exchanges
10. Application of the Kyoto Protocol: an opportunity for company competitiveness?

  LABOUR The labour market in Italy after the Biagi reform

11. The precariousness of employment relationships (survey)
12. Atypical work: human costs and contractual fictions
13. Working at fifty?
14. The poor in suits
15. Amid fears and uncertainties, “fluctuating” poverty
16. Analysis of company management: ownership and managerial positions
17. The right to university study, the right to mobility and its impact on the competitiveness of the Italian university system
18. The eternal students in the jungle of masters and specialisation courses
19. An un-European driving licence
20. Formez as a facilitator of innovation processes in public administration

  ECONOMY The long night of the economy: the world turns, Italy does not

21. Italians’ opinion on the Government’s economic policy and on economic trends (survey)
22. Perceived inflation and Italians’ propensity to consume and save (survey)
23. I wish I could but I can’t: the consumer credit explosion (survey)
24. Eurispes’ shopping basket: working is not enough
25. Purchasing power dynamics in Italy
26. The Italy of excellence
27. A Country for sale
28. Made in Italy: what still sets Italy apart in the world
29. Italy’s food balance
30. Entrepreneurial models and work cultures among young farmers

  DEMOCRACY AND INSTITUTIONS A sick democracy

31. Citizens’ trust in the institutions (survey)
32. Zipping politics in Berlusconi’s Italy
33. The uncertain contours of Federalism: the opinion of the Italians (survey)
34. The commitment of the municipal administrations in the area of federalism
35. Local finance, or rather how Administrations make a virtue out of necessity
36. Italians and the process of European integration: a mix of confidence in the future, current disappointment and fear of economic and bureaucratic lobbies (survey)
37. The Maastricht parameters and economic growth, an alternative approach
38. Women’s representation in institutional bodies
39. Dynamism: a measure of the economic growth of territories
40. Democracy on the Stock Exchange

  JUSTICE AND LEGALITY Considerations on the state of Italian justice

41. Judicial errors, time taken by justice and reasonable length of trial
42. The radiography of organised crime between homicides, turnover and mafia penetration
43. The phenomenon of usury
44. Work and economy: two faces of the same underground economy
45. Waste emergency: not only Acerra
46. Bank-business interpenetration in the Italian production system: a brake on the economy and transparency?
47. The reform of child custody in separations. Who conceived it, who fights against it
48. Freedom: I’ve seen her dancing… but a prisoner of barbed wire. Temporary Residence Centres (CPT)
49. How I’m going to squeeze your student
50. A concrete fact: an unjust pension for many people

  SOCIETY AND HABITS The time of metamorphosis

51. Analysis of family demographic trends in Italy
52. The digital transformation of the Italian family
53. Dear friend I write to you… Virtual communities
54. Living room voyeurism
55. Invisible Italy: submerged cultural phenomena ignored by the media
56. Horse fever. Italians and gambling
57. Marriage, but how much will it cost me?
58. When Advertising makes the (female) Revolution
59. In search of ancient flavours: the growing supply of quality branded products
60. Noise pollution: much ado about nothing