Transatlantico

Poverty levels in Italy remain significant, but essentially unchanged in recent years, after the rapid rise starting 2010 following the international financial crisis and the Euro crisis in particular. In its “Discussion Note” for September 2017, the Prometeia research association stresses that in Italy the categories “at risk of poverty” and “working poor” are above […]

– by Andrew Spannaus – European nations have been thrown into a political crisis by the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming north from the Middle East and Africa. The number has grown in recent years, due to a mix of wars and poverty, resulting in a visible increase of the influx of foreigners across […]

In the context of the post-industrial transformation of western economies over recent decades, Italy remains one of the countries that, at least relatively, still has an economy based on manufacturing. Despite a reduction of productive activities in recent years, and in particular during the period of austerity from 2011 to 2014, some indicators show the […]