An overall view
1999 Italy
A container-country
(The New Economy and its potential as a driving force; Privatizations; Italians and their adventures abroad; Italian women between modernity and tradition; The traditional channels of economic life)
A molecular society
(The growing demand for personal security; The approach by individuals and families to social security needs; The growth in self-employment; New social difficulties of molecular growth; Ambivalent attitudes towards Europe)
Areas of social policy
Education
(From reforms to policies; Towards welfare in education; The autonomous status of schools comes into the open; The new task of institutional assessment; The European Social Fund. Inevitable consequences and compulsory efficiencies; The need for skilled human resources; Universities: less students, more graduates)
Work, professional qualification, representation
(Employment without growth; Workers' representation in trouble)
Welfare
(Changes in demand and new diseases; Planned economy and the retreat of the healthcare system; Biotechnologies in Italy. A costly delay; An aging population. A challenge to healthcare services and social assistance; New residents and the future of integration; Industrial accidents: a high mortality rate; Achilles and the tortoise. The paradox of social security)
Territory and networks
(Real estate fever; The continuing expansion of the real estate market; Life in "Swamp-city"; Risk-prevention and urban refurbishment; Local public services turn competitive; Decentralization and liberalization in local public transport; National railways and the market: a difficult transition; Voluntary environmental certification; The first faltering steps in urban solid waste disposal in Italy)
The economic actors of development
(A laboratory-year / watching and waiting; Internationalism diversifies; Italian businesses put to the Euro test; Beyond Europe. Italy in the Mediterranean; A new approach to debt; Central Italy lives)
Means and procedures
Public government
(Federalism on hold; The 'Pass Project' as the driving force behind administrative innovation in the South; One-stop shops: Pros & cons; Public security; Changes in the Italian Postal Service; Playing with the tax system; The Internet and local government; Italian politics: no clear trends)
Communications and culture
(The revolution is here; Tangible change at last; Italy in Europe; Multi-media users and TV addicts; What's on TV?; Families + TV = "Fiction"; A real "mass culture"; Communication & sponsors; Women and culture)
Appendix
(Looking through figures; Foreword; Background; Censis: an observer on the watch).

Contributors:

Serie: Varie

Subjects: Censis