Description
This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion. This ambitious book uses a multidisciplinary approach and original field studies to tackle this important topic.
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Foreword; Claudio Cecchi (PhD, Director of Eurosapienza, Research Center on European International and Development Studies)
Preface: Italy in the European context: What has changed pending Horizon 2020; Donatella Strangio and Giuseppe Sancetta
PART I: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES
1. The Italian Monetary policy in perspective: lessons from monetary history of Italy before the EMU; Mauro Rota and Donatella Strangio
2. Immigration policies in the EU: failure or success? Evidences from Italy; Elena Ambrosetti and Angela Paparusso
3. Income inequality in Italy: tendencies and policy implications; Maurizio Franzini and Michele Raitano
4. Digital inequality in Italy and Europe; Debora Di Gioacchino, Adriana Lotti and Simone Tedeschi
PART II: BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENT
5. Fashion firms and counterfeiting: causes and actions; Alberto Pastore and Ludovica Cesareo
6. A bottom up approach to unlevered risk in a financial and managerial perspective; Antonio Renzi, Giuseppe Sancetta and Beatrice Orlando
7. European Economic Development and the Environment; Luca Mocarelli
8. The multiple effects of energy efficiency on Green Economy; Maurizio Boccacci Mariani
9. Climate change and reproductive intentions in Europe; Alessandra De Rose and Maria Rita Testa
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