How austerity has widened Italy’s North-South divide

Austerity policies have accentuated the North-South divide, primarily through a distribution of public spending and the tax burden skewed against the Mezzzogiorno and amid an increasing scarcity of public resources, argues economist Guglielmo Forges Davanzati “It is well known what kind of ideology has been disseminated in myriad ways among the masses in the North, by the … Continue reading →