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The Italian Mezzogiorno: Does it Fit the Convergence Model?

In: Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union

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  • Robert Leonardi

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract

The Italian Mezzogiorno has a number of characteristics similar to those manifested by the other regions located in Objective 1 areas along the southern periphery of the EU. Until the accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain, Italy’s southern regions had the lowest levels of development, the highest levels of unemployment and among the lowest supply of economic and social infrastructure in all of the EC. In 1950 the level of development of southern Italy was approximately one third of the average for the first nine member states. Its main resource, labour, was freely exported to the northern regions of Italy (especially the industrial triangle formed by the regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria) and industrialised EC countries (Romero, 1993). In other European countries Italians flocked to fill jobs in coalmining (Belgium and France), manufacturing (Germany), construction (Switzerland) and services (UK).

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  • Robert Leonardi, 1995. "The Italian Mezzogiorno: Does it Fit the Convergence Model?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union, chapter 5, pages 141-168, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37278-8_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230372788_5
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