Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy

The article examines the effects on income, consumption, imports and fiscal receipts of an additional pubic investment expenditure aiming at raising the economic level of a depressed area. Although this problem is set in general terms, the study refers to the economic depression in Southern Italy,...

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Main Author: P. SARACENO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Economia civile 2014-10-01
Series:PSL Quarterly Review
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Online Access:https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/12852
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description The article examines the effects on income, consumption, imports and fiscal receipts of an additional pubic investment expenditure aiming at raising the economic level of a depressed area. Although this problem is set in general terms, the study refers to the economic depression in Southern Italy, a problem to which the author has been devoting his attention for a number of years. The paper points out the difference between such a policy of public expenditure and the anti-cycle policy to which up-to-date economic thought usually refers to. The difference lies mainly in the following points: availability of productive factors not matched by an availability of monetary savings; a longer duration of the required State action and the low profitability of public investments. Notwithstanding this special situation, an anti-depression policy may be carried out successfully, particularly if the experience of the war economy is kept in mind.   JEL: H50, H54, O11, 020
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spelling doaj.art-2ca27dc901594651900ffd9c28bf993d2023-02-03T16:49:52ZengAssociazione Economia civilePSL Quarterly Review2037-36352037-36432014-10-0121010.13133/2037-3643/12852Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern ItalyP. SARACENO The article examines the effects on income, consumption, imports and fiscal receipts of an additional pubic investment expenditure aiming at raising the economic level of a depressed area. Although this problem is set in general terms, the study refers to the economic depression in Southern Italy, a problem to which the author has been devoting his attention for a number of years. The paper points out the difference between such a policy of public expenditure and the anti-cycle policy to which up-to-date economic thought usually refers to. The difference lies mainly in the following points: availability of productive factors not matched by an availability of monetary savings; a longer duration of the required State action and the low profitability of public investments. Notwithstanding this special situation, an anti-depression policy may be carried out successfully, particularly if the experience of the war economy is kept in mind.   JEL: H50, H54, O11, 020 https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/12852Public investmentSouthern Italypolicyanti-cycle
spellingShingle P. SARACENO
Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy
PSL Quarterly Review
Public investment
Southern Italy
policy
anti-cycle
title Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy
title_full Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy
title_fullStr Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy
title_full_unstemmed Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy
title_short Public expenditure, saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern Italy
title_sort public expenditure saving and forengn loans in the devolopment of southern italy
topic Public investment
Southern Italy
policy
anti-cycle
url https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/12852
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