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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Italy in the early years of the 21st Century.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are
unsubstantiated, misleading or even false. No attempt has been
made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of poverty are of particular interest to
you. You might be interested in
exploring the relationship between distribution of labor and per-capita GDP,
for example. Perhaps your paper could
focus on life expectancy or infant mortality.
Other factors of interest might be unemployment, literacy, access to
basic services, etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include some of the possible outgrowths of poverty
such as Human Trafficking,
Street Children,
or even Prostitution. There is a lot to the subject of
Poverty. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** Extreme Weather *** Italy
has experienced some remarkable extreme weather events recently. Sixteen
cities across Italy, including Rome, Florence, and Bologna, were issued red
alerts due to a fierce heatwave. Forecasters even predicted that Sicily and
Sardinia could face record-breaking temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F),
which would be the hottest ever recorded in Europe. – adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot *** ARCHIVES *** The World Factbook - Italy U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html [accessed 29
December 2020] World Factbook
website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/italy/ [accessed 5 January 2021] The
government still faces pressure from investors and European partners to
sustain its efforts to address Italy's longstanding structural economic
problems, including labor market inefficiencies, a sluggish judicial system,
and a weak banking sector. Italy’s economy returned to modest growth in late
2014 for the first time since 2011. In 2015-16, Italy’s economy grew at about
1% each year, and in 2017 growth accelerated to 1.5% of GDP. In 2017, overall
unemployment was 11.4%, but youth unemployment remained high at 37.1%. GDP -
per capita (PPP): $38,200 (2017
est.) Labor
force - by occupation: agriculture:
3.9% industry:
29.3% services: 67.8% (2011 est.) Unemployment
rate: 11.3% (2017
est.) Population
below poverty line: 29.9% (2012
est.) Maternal
mortality rate: 2 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) Infant
mortality rate: total: 3.2 deaths/1,000 live births Life
expectancy at birth: total population: 82.5 years Drinking
water source: improved: total: 100% of population Physicians
density: 3.98 physicians/1,000 population (2017) Sanitation
facility access: improved: total: 98.8% of
population Electricity
access: electrification - total population: 100% (2016) The
Borgen Project - Italy borgenproject.org/category/italy/ [accessed 7 February 2021] The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the
United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for
the world’s poor. It is an innovative,
national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign
policy. It believes that leaders of
the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global
poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote,
nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The
Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating
at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day. ~
The State Of Healthcare In Italy borgenproject.org/healthcare-in-italy/ ~
4 Facts About Hunger In Italy borgenproject.org/4-facts-about-hunger-in-italy/ ~
7 Facts About Homelessness In Italy borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-italy-2/ ~
The Future Of The Migrant Crisis In Italy borgenproject.org/migrant-crisis-in-italy/ ~
4 Facts About Innovations In Poverty Eradication In Italy borgenproject.org/innovations-in-poverty-eradication-in-italy/ ~
Rome’s Famous Trevi Fountain Fights Poverty borgenproject.org/romes-famous-trevi-fountain-fights-poverty/ ~
Powertis: Reducing Energy Poverty In
Italy borgenproject.org/energy-poverty-in-italy/ ~
Sustainable Tourism Is Combatting Poverty In Sardinia borgenproject.org/sustainable-tourism-is-combatting-poverty-in-sardinia/ ~
10 Facts About Life Expectancy In Italy borgenproject.org/10-facts-about-life-expectancy-in-italy/ ~
What Is Lampedusa? borgenproject.org/what-is-lampedusa/ The
World Bank in Italy www.worldbank.org/en/country/italy/overview [accessed 22 April
2021] Italy
and the World Bank work with other member governments to finance projects,
design policies, and deliver programs to end poverty in the developing world. Looking
back a few years Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Italy-ECONOMY.html [accessed 7 February 2021] As the
Italian economy, the world's sixth largest, has expanded since the 1950s, its
structure has changed markedly. Agriculture, which in 1953 contributed 25% of
the GNP and employed 35% of the labor force, contributed in 1968 only 11% of
the GNP and employed only 22% of the active labor force—despite continued
increases in the value of agricultural production. Agriculture's contribution
to the GDP further declined to 8.4% in 1974 and 5% in 2001. Conversely, the
importance of industry has increased dramatically. From
1981 through 1983, Italy endured a period of recession, with rising budget
deficits, interest rates above 20%, virtually no real GDP growth, and an
unemployment rate approaching 10%. Unemployment hovered around the 10 to 12%
range for most of the 1990s and at 9% into the 2000s. Between 1985 and 1995,
GDP growth averaged 1.9% a year. All
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