With a critical article in the Manifesto, the Bari economist Gianfranco Viesti encourages the Democratic Party to take up the challenge of differentiated autonomy to fight a battle for the reconstruction of Southern Italy which has the fight against inequalities at its centre. But without a policy…
On Thursday 30 November the Observatory on Italian Public Accounts and Save the Children present the policy paper which analyzes the situation in Italy and proposes possible solutions on the topic
In Italy salaries have been unchanged for at least 30 years, while in Germany and France they have grown by 33,7% and 31,1%. The result? An increase in inequality. The data from the analysis of the Inapp
According to the Via Nazionale survey, in 2020 the richest 7% of Italian families had 50% of the assets, while the least wealthy 50% owned only 8%
In the Annual Report, Istat reports that absolute poverty has more than doubled since 2005 and that, with inflation, real wages will return to 2022 levels by the end of 2009
The banking group led by Carlo Messina has produced the document that supports the planning of social initiatives to counter the new fragility of the country - Identified 14 thematic areas on which to intervene
World Inequality Lab presents the income map of the planet starting from 1820 which shows the risk that the gap between rich and poor will widen even more as a result of the pandemic - In Europe, however,…
According to the French economist Thomas Piketty, the progressives of our times conquer the educated electorate but the conservatives keep the wealthy ones: this is why according to his recent working paper which has attracted the attention of the Economist of which we report the Italian version
INTERVIEW WITH GIANFRANCO VIESTI, Full Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Bari, southerner and author of the book "Centres and Peripheries" - The gap between Northern and Southern Italy has distant origins and in this century the reality has worsened - Pesano…
On the occasion of World Africa Day 2021, the Farnesina organized an important digital event. In order to raise awareness of the serious problems that still afflict the African continent and the opportunities for the future
INTERVIEW WITH FRANCO FERRAROTTI, father of Sociology in Italy - "The character of a people does not change in just one year but the pandemic is changing habits and is increasing the risk of greater inequalities" - "Let's hope that…
According to a study by Ref Ricerche, the pandemic is widening social inequalities because the virus kills more victims among the poor and affects less skilled workers more - Meanwhile, those who can afford it accumulate savings during the lockdowns
Alarm signal launched by Giovannini's Asvis on the backward steps of our country in gender equality and in the fight against inequalities - But also in the fight against poverty, in the protection of health, in the quality of work and in infrastructures we are…
The pandemic is increasing inequalities not only at an economic level, but also at a social and health level - And, in the meantime, the middle class is shrinking both due to the economic crisis and due to the great transformations in the organization of work
The seclusion or working from home have already upset the habits of the Italians - the ladies-well have re-evaluated the role of the maids and the men have discovered the housework - but what will remain? Will there be more equality or…
The Oxfam Report presented on the occasion of the Davos summit indicates that inequality tends to grow in Italy, even if less than commonly believed, but the concentration of wealth does not lead to more poverty and more…
Even Ray Dalio, the founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, raises the alarm about inequality but there is no unity of purpose on what to do - The lesson of the historian Scheidel al Mulino - If the enormous difference in level is not remedied…
In his new book "Società Signorile di Massa" the sociologist Luca Ricolfi proposes a reading of Italy today that is completely different from the current one - He claims that inequalities have not increased and that today there are many people who, instead of committing…
According to a global research by HSBC, it appears that 35% of women who do business experience episodes of gender inequality, especially in the capital raising phases: the funds granted are higher if they are asked by men.
According to a report by the World Bank, the level of income largely depends on factors that have nothing to do with personal abilities: for example, the place of birth, the socio-cultural level of the family to which one...
The wealthiest 20% of Italians have 60% of the wealth, while the poorest 20% have just 0,3% - Inequalities are even greater in France and Germany.
FROM THE ADVISEONLY BLOG - Not only GDP and public debt: the next Italian government will also have to deal with a certain "Corrado Gini", responsible for having told us about income inequalities
The repentance on the effects of new technologies on work and on society is becoming one of the prevailing moods among the founders of start-ups and among the inventors of Silicon Valley - The strange basic income proposed by the co-founder…
According to the report presented by the French economist Thomas Piketty and Lucas Cancel of the Paris School of Economics, based on 175 million fiscal and statistical data processed by the wid.world project, inequalities are growing everywhere, albeit at different rates -…
WEEKEND INTERVIEW with former premier ROMANO PRODI - By courtesy of the publisher il Mulino and the author, we are exceptionally publishing a small excerpt from Prodi's new book "The Inclined Plane" which focuses not only on the urgency …
FOCUS BNL - The economic crisis has accentuated social inequalities that often go hand in hand with poverty - The Government has included indicators on inequality in income distribution in the Def to implement suitable interventions to deal with it
The new President would like to imitate Reagan with the largest tax cut in recent US history, but it didn't work in the 80s - It is said that reducing taxes will not restore investment and growth while the…
According to Oxfam's analysis, 1% of the wealthiest in the world own as much as the remaining 99% - Meanwhile, one in nine people suffers from hunger and one in 10 lives on less than two dollars a day - The NGO launches…
FOCUS BNL - In recent years, inequality in the distribution of disposable income has grown in all advanced countries and in Italy it tends to reproduce itself among the generations more than elsewhere: educational qualifications, professions and property titles…
