The South Pole remains: over 16% of families do not get to the end of the month – Pensions Today

remains gray photograph taken after 7 years of crisis by Confcommercio on Southern Italian. 16% of families struggle to make ends meet.

The 16% of households in the South can not make it to the end of the month, the same percentage recorded in the quarter previous and the exact double of the share acquired in the north (8%). Detects Confesercenti in the index on the financial viability of families in October, which finds an Italy in three speeds: north out of the crisis, trying to leave the center, while the south is still at stake.

In October the index Sef Confesercenti SWG, measuring on a scale of 1 to 100 the Economic Soundness ‘perceived’ by Italian families, share rises to 58, with a leap of two points over July and marking the highest level since December 2013. The public perceives therefore the positive trend, but not so for the whole of Italy. “There is a perceptible improvement – analyze Confesercenti – but the long economic crisis has deepened the gap between the main areas of the country . The families of the southern regions, in particular, find it hard to get out of trouble, after acknowledging and weaker other signs of recovery.

From this point of view is valuable special plan of action expected Southern Italy in the Stability Law: but in the past there have been other, proved in the end almost all ineffective. We must change tack: now need a structural approach, which encourages activities, such as trade, tourism and cultural, that can not relocate. “

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