An overall view - 1998 Italy
(Italy entrenched; The hidden economy holds, but it might not suffice; Italy goes more international than global; New patterns of employment)
Inadequate relational patterns
(Big cities, minimal networks)
An uncertain future
(The future: an uncertain output; The (unresourced) reform of education; A "book-keeper's" welfare system and generational injustice; The paradoxes of technological consumption)
Areas of stability and innovation
(The stamina of local capitalism; The South and its driving force; Less products and more advanced services; For a more citizen-friendly public administration)
Areas of social policy
Education
(Old problems, new scenarios; Autonomous schools: expectations and uncertainties; rom equal status to entitlement; Teachers' enthusiasm for technology; University lags behind in modernization; Integration as a way to strengthen the range of educational opportunities; Making full use of human resources: a slow process)
Work, professional qualification, representation
(The "do-it-yourself" approach; Offsetting flexibility)
Welfare
(Rights and responsibilities in social policies: slowly a balance is achieved; Decision-making in welfare. Too many powers, too few resources; Deadlock; Social citizenhood, based on labor and local identity; The "conquest" of health. The efficiency approach in the '90s; Strategies to fight social marginalization; A map of social tension. The problems of social marginalization; Immigrants. The social portrayal of an emergency; Radical change in the social security system. From flexibility to inclusion)
Territory and networks
(Towards a new metropolitan order; A broader approach to urban renewal; The environment needs practical policies; Real estate recovery; Urban renewal on the move; The long wait for town-planning reform; Urban performance; Cities for all: including the disadvantaged; Failure to regulate mobility in cities; Digital cities: between technology and mass media; The "seasons" of natural disasters; Environment policies and the implementation of new laws)
The economic actors of development
(Europe and uncertainty; The stamina of local enterprise; The shake-up in local development; Local development; Italy and a stable European Union; The importance of logistics; Territorial Pacts. An instrument of local development?; Bank Foundations and local development; Trade fairs and exhibitions)
Means and procedures
Public government
(The risks of virtual decentralization; Bridging the efficiency gaps; Assessing citizen satisfaction; Increasing responsibility; Delays in institutional reform; Training and responsibility among State employees; Towards simpler forms of justice; Innovation creates division; The new protagonists of urban safety; Focusing on users)
Communication and culture
(New opportunities, new inequalities; Social issues and the media; The invasion of the ultra-movies; The cliché: a "protected species"; Interactive fever; TV addicts vs. multi-media users)
Appendix
(Looking through figures; Background; Censis: an observer on the watch).

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Subjects: Censis