The purpose of this paper is to investigate the failure of development policies in southern Italy by a different channel of exploration. The coordination between urban planning and economic reasoning represents the unusual place of analysis. Even though the common opinion is used to remarking the bottlenecks during the process of policy implementation (policy-action dichotomy) as the principal cause of this failure, a different thesis is here hold. More precisely, it is argued that the lack of that coordination would have slowed down the process of development. The regional level of analysis concerns the long run practice of development policies in three sample regions. The lack of coordination is the missing link during two different periods of investigation. The first period is characterized by a stronger presence of central aid to the South than the second ones. The comparison of the results, concerning the two periods, shows interesting points of further investigation regarding the degree of dependency on the central aid. The local level of analysis tries to point out how the local (provincial) economic structure react to the public investment dealing with the territory, such as infrastructure, housing, etc. The analysis is an impact evaluation using the I/O model. Therefore, it is a short run analysis, that aims at investigating the future potentialities due to present public investment. To achieve valid results, the Input Output provincial table considers not only foreign, but also domestic trade (with the rest of Italy). Considering an I/O open model, the analysis might attempt to define the weight of the southern province (Salerno) within the nation. The results of both levels of analysis prove that the most part of the South is used to acting through short run economic policy. Economic planning, as well as other forms of planning cannot success because planning would mean much more control on the distribution of effects.
Development policy and Urban planning in Southern Italy. From regional to local level / Bevilacqua, C. - (1997). (Intervento presentato al convegno XX Congress of NORTH EAST REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION tenutosi a Boston).
Development policy and Urban planning in Southern Italy. From regional to local level
BEVILACQUA C
Primo
1997
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the failure of development policies in southern Italy by a different channel of exploration. The coordination between urban planning and economic reasoning represents the unusual place of analysis. Even though the common opinion is used to remarking the bottlenecks during the process of policy implementation (policy-action dichotomy) as the principal cause of this failure, a different thesis is here hold. More precisely, it is argued that the lack of that coordination would have slowed down the process of development. The regional level of analysis concerns the long run practice of development policies in three sample regions. The lack of coordination is the missing link during two different periods of investigation. The first period is characterized by a stronger presence of central aid to the South than the second ones. The comparison of the results, concerning the two periods, shows interesting points of further investigation regarding the degree of dependency on the central aid. The local level of analysis tries to point out how the local (provincial) economic structure react to the public investment dealing with the territory, such as infrastructure, housing, etc. The analysis is an impact evaluation using the I/O model. Therefore, it is a short run analysis, that aims at investigating the future potentialities due to present public investment. To achieve valid results, the Input Output provincial table considers not only foreign, but also domestic trade (with the rest of Italy). Considering an I/O open model, the analysis might attempt to define the weight of the southern province (Salerno) within the nation. The results of both levels of analysis prove that the most part of the South is used to acting through short run economic policy. Economic planning, as well as other forms of planning cannot success because planning would mean much more control on the distribution of effects.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.