What makes Southern Italy still lagging behind? A diachronic perspective of theories and approachesFootnote

† This paper is mostly based on a study entitled ‘Interpretative theories and approaches on the Italian Mezzogiorno: a diachronic perspective’, developed by the author for DGRegio. Ideas presented in this paper are exclusively those of the author.

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