Il divario Nord-Sud
The North-South divide
Salvatore Ardito
Transcript
The economic divide between North and South is perhaps Italy's oldest open question.
Already at the moment of Unification in 1861, the two areas of the country showed profoundly different productive structures.
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The industrialised North was growing, while the South remained predominantly agricultural.
The Cassa del Mezzogiorno, established in 1950, tried to bridge the gap with massive public investments.
The results were partial and controversial.
Today the GDP per capita of the South is still about fifty-five percent of that of the North.
The challenge remains open: to build an Italy that is not divided into two speeds.