The aim of this work is to present an overview on Italian Public Administration accounts from the 1960s to the present days. We will look at how public expenditure and receipts have evolved over the years, responding to favourable or unfavourable economic circumstances and to policy makers...

In questo lavoro, dopo un esame delle recenti proposte in tema di riforma dell'assistenza, si analizzano due ipotetiche riforme relative all'introduzione di un istituto di contrasto della povertà rispettivamente in alternativa e in aggiunta agli assegni al nucleo familiare, di cui si...

Means-tested social assistance programs have acquired, in the last two decades, an increasing role in the majority of industrialised countries. Although the issue of whether social assistance should be targeted or universally granted remains a main subject of dispute (Harding et al. 1994; Mitchell 1995;...