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Conditions for the Growth of Italian Businesses
The structural difficulty preventing Italian companies from being able to grow, join forces and compete on the global market can be removed, both by intervening in the regulatory and fiscal context, and by imposing corporate governance choices that involve opening up capital to outside investors, private or otherwise, or opening up debt.The “necessary transition” that Italian companies must make ...
All the Opportunities of the MENA Area
The MENA area has factors of attractiveness that make it desirable as a new "promised land for business" for Italian companies. The MENA area has points of strength that appear specular to the weaknesses of Italy.#Thanks to its geographic positioning, our country represents a natural logistics platform in the Mediterranean. Only through important investments aimed at developing our intermodal network ...
The Golden Rules for Doing Business
Africa is an area in which doing business is challenging and at the same time very promising. For those who decide to operate on the continent, the selection of the countries from which to start or on which to focus is crucial, as is the medium to long-term strategic approach to adopt. The most promising countries are those with more diversified economies and less dependence on single resources, such ...
Aggregate Demand is the Italian Problem
Between 1992 and 2018, the Italian economy saw a worrying slowdown of growth of aggregate demand, due above all to the significant contraction of private and public consumption. In the same period, Italy has been among the European countries that have made the greatest effort to reduce protections for insecure workers, leading to an exponential increase of workers with fixed-term contracts.#From a ...
Digital Procurement Made in Italy
In the area of procurement, the new technologies currently considered to have the greatest medium-term impact on processes are those of "data analysis and visualization," whose descriptive and predictive capacities have various degrees of complexity.#Among the 618 digital procurement projects investigated in the study Digital Procurement. The State of the Art in Italy , conducted by the SDA Bocconi ...
The Playing Field for African Businesses
The development of Africa must not be based only on the public sector, international aid, foreign investment, or remittances, but rather on numerous actors from various areas and full support from the private sector. In Africa, agribusiness and the food and agriculture transformation industry can grow from an aggregate value of 313 billion dollars in 2010 to at least 1,000 billion dollars by 2030. ...
The Growth of Vertical Farming Between Reality and Promises
Vertical farming is an innovative solution to grow plants, stacked in multiple layers, in closed environments in which light, nutrients, and temperature are constantly controlled.#The main advantages of vertical farming are linked to the efficient use of nutrients, the possibility to produce all year round even in hostile environments, as well as water savings, the possibility to eliminate herbicides ...
The New Rules on European and Italian Agricultural Policy
Born in the 1950s with the idea of increasing agricultural productivity and protecting producers and consumers, the structure of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was recently rethought from the perspective of social, environmental, and economic sustainability, with the intent of modifying the entire European and extra-European food system from a green standpoint.#Among the most ambitious points ...
The Territorial Allocation of Resources, between Good and Bad
The evidence presented suggests that PNRR allocations generally favor the most problematic areas of the country. However, depending on the specific area of intervention, this result is not always robust. For example, while funds for the environment appear to go to areas facing greater difficulties, those for education are not allocated according to the same logic. Next Generation EU and the ...
The Hotel Sector in Italy
From 2005 to 2019, real estate investments in the Italian hotel sector went from 494 million euros to 3,250 million euros, a total increase of 557 percent. These numbers are extremely encouraging, but in the past fifteen years the sector has had to defend itself from the effects of the 2008 crisis.