Postwar development in the Italian Mezzogiorno. Analyses and policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12547858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Alacevich (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-112 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1354571x.2012.736199 |
| OpenAlex | W1968174060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 14 |
As Manlio Rossi-Doria wrote, in the early postwar years, the Southern Question was primarily an agrarian one. The debate and policies that addressed the Southern Question, however, did not remain confined solely to the agrarian dimension. The transformation of Southern agriculture was inextricably connected to two additional features of the Italian Mezzogiorno: first, the huge demographic expansion, and second, the lack of an industrial sector able to absorb the excessive agrarian population and to lead a process of economic diversification and internationalization. Above all, the solution to the Southern Question was interpreted as a truly national task. The development of the Mezzogiorno was at the basis of the collaboration between Italy and the World Bank throughout the 1950s. That experience became the subject of an intense debate over development policies that went beyond the Italian borders and embraced the question of postwar development worldwide. The Italian experience turned eventually out to be a failure. One feature of that experience remained vital, though, and has been underscored by contemporary scholars: the solution to the Southern Question is to be found at the national level, not just regionally
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Development economics · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Internationalization · Political economy · Political science · Population · Sociology · Subject (documents · Demography · Economic Theory and Policy · Historical and Environmental Studies · History · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
The Hegemony of Growth
Culture for development
Promoting a multilateral ‘revolution’ in rural development
Entangled Transitions
Ace in the Hole or Hole in the Pocket? The Italian Mezzogiorno and the Story of a Troubled Transition from Development Model to Development Donor
Financing utilities
Industrial policy
Planning in cold-war Italy
Building Industrial Districts
Economic Responses to Nazi Aggression in Europe
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Birth of Development Economics
Theory and Practice in Development Economics
The Hungry World
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II
The Corrupting Sea
The View from Vesuvius
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
The Italian Economy Seen from Abroad over 150 Years
The Rationale of Central Banking
Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
People of the Mediterranean
People of the Mediterranean
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |