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Demand and supply oriented policies and development. The "forgotten" dualism

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  • A. Giannola
  • C. Petraglia

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Demand versus supply oriented policies have always been confronting each other in the long story of the public intervention for the economic and social development of Southern Italy. Many years after 1992, when the "intervento straordinario" has been dismanteld, the so-called "nuova programmazione" tried (and still tries) to reconcile the parochial ideology of local endogenous development, with the realistic recognition of the essential role of external intervention in the South. Such an approach, while has provided useful instruments and "best practices", completely failed the task of providing a feasible development strategy. The reason for this failure is mainly due to the deep rooted attitude of paying no attention to the peculiarities of the Italian dualism. The unsatisfactory achievements of this policy are considered looking to the most recent trend of productivity and investment differentials between southern and northern regions. The Mezzogiorno, far from having reached a stable catching-up path, is in the process of loosing ground vis a vis to the other regions of the Country and of the EU. In this framework, we focus on the Federal reform of the State and on the usually neglected issue of the redistributive effects stemming from public debt stabilization policies, arguing that this feature will penalize the poorer regions that hold a relatively little share of the overall stock of debt.

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  • A. Giannola & C. Petraglia, 2007. "Demand and supply oriented policies and development. The "forgotten" dualism," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 13-42.
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    1. C. Donati & D. Sarno, 2009. "Competitiveness and economic performance of Southern Italy's SMEs in the first half of the last decade," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 4, pages 793-826.
    2. Adriano Giannola & Antonio Lopes & Alberto Zazzaro, 2013. "La convergenza dello sviluppo finanziario tra le regioni italiane dal 1890 ad oggi," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, issue 1, pages 145-197, January-M.
    3. C. Petraglia & F. Purificato, 2013. "Single currency and supranational constraints to fiscal policies in the Eurozone during the crisis," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 4, pages 1065-1094.
    4. Davide Bubbico, 2014. "Economic Actors and Local Institutions in Activities in Support of the Automotive Sector in Southern Italy," QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, Associazione Rossi Doria, issue 4, January.
    5. Antonio Purpura, 2015. "The Italian «Mezzogiorno»: From the «Industrial Desertification» to a New Path to Growth, Some Policy Indications," L'industria, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 317-322.
    6. Giannola, A. & Petraglia, C. & Scalera, D., 2011. "Residui fiscali regionali e riforma federalista. Quanto residuerà delle politiche regionali e redistributive? [Fiscal residua and federalist reform in Italy. Will regional and redistributive polici," MPRA Paper 30895, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. G.L.C. Provenzano, 2014. "Why has the South fallen behind? The role of policies. A contribution to this debate starting from Emanuele Felice's volume," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 4, pages 991-1048.

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