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The Bumpy Road of the Exit from the Mixed Economy
The divestment of the companies held by IRI did not require any additional intervention in terms of public finance, demonstrating their evident condition of good health. The privatizations were also driven by an essentially financial logic: the state sought high and immediate financial proceeds, but often without an in-depth evaluation of the quality of the buyers or the consequences of the divestments ...
False Positives: The Anomalies of Online Reviews
With respect to traditional operators (hotels), in the sharing economy the generation of empathy towards the supplier of the service reduces the possibility for negative reviews by users, even in the event of an unsatisfying experience. The high social distance in the context of the sharing economy explains the generation of empathy. In that sense, even traditional operators should act to create warmer ...
The Prospects for the Italian Water Pricing System
With approximately 40 euros per inhabitant per year in 2018, compared to a European average of 100 euros, Italy is at the bottom of the European rankings for investment in the water sector. The causes are to be found in the organizational deficits on the part of the operators, overly complex regulations, and the limited utilization of credit.#The current tariff method launched an intervention seeking ...
When Publishers no Longer Believe in Publishing
You had to get in line, twenty years ago, to understand the phenomenon of Repubblica.it. In the fall of 2001, delegations of experts and journalists from Axel Springer, the publisher of the popular Bild and the elite Die Welt newspapers in Germany, plus a long list of regional publications and magazines, came down from Berlin to Rome, armed with notepads. The Parisians of Le Monde also went to Repubblica’s ...
From the Newspaper to the Newsbrand: The View of Managers
Audipress represents the official, objective, and impartial survey on the reading of daily and periodic press in Italy. It provides data on reading, together with socio-demographic information on the readers for the main Italian journalistic publications (54 newspapers and daily supplements - that represent almost the entirety of what is sold by newsstands in this segment - and 50 periodicals).[1] ...
Health Emergencies: The Case of the Papilloma Virus
Of the 311,000 deaths per year due to cervical cancer, 90 percent take place in medium and low-income countries, with a decidedly higher incidence in Africa. The multidimensional nature of services and the ability of management to conceive of integrated solutions and policies is the principal challenge present in Africa to limit the spread of cervical cancer. Investing in therapies and treatment for ...
Euro and African Franc Better Together
The analysis of the macroeconomic costs and benefits of the experience of the African franc is much more complex than what the superficial debate in Italy in recent months suggested. The French government's decision to reduce its role will mean that the African countries will have to choose how to continue relations with the euro. The ECB could have an active role in the relations with the African ...
Women and Energy as Drivers of Development
African women represent over 50 percent of the African population but contribute to generating only 33 percent of the continent's collective GDP. This is because they are mostly employed in the informal sector, in low-income work with very few protections and prospects for professional growth. In Africa, approximately 600 million people currently lack access to electricity and over 70 percent of the ...
Political-economic Dynamism and the Unknown Factor of Solidity
Africa is often portrayed in a simplistic manner, and the sum of the 54 countries it consists of - 49 in the sub-Saharan region - is inevitably depicted using short-cuts and stereotypical images. Between 1990 and 1994, most sub-Saharan countries introduced new constitutional structures, and this season of political reform served as a prelude to that of economic progress and greater interest by international ...
Goodbye Workers?
This dossier is dedicated to work, and more specifically to workers in businesses and organizations in a broad sense. “Workers” is an almost outdated term that, similar to what happened with “laborers,” is now disappearing from the managerial vocabulary. In its place people speak of “human resources” and “human capital,” and no longer of “employees” but “associates.” Yet we ...