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The present decline of the Italian manufacturing is not unprecedented throughout the history of the Italian economy. among the events of former times, one of the most serious cases occurred in the seventeenth century & has been admirably depicted by C. M. Cipolla. One may notice how these adverse historical events do show some alarming similarities with what is happening in the present times. The current situation is from then on discussed at some length in the remainder of the paper, especially as to its causes & effects concerning the status of the public finance. Finally it is point out that the ways commonly suggested to put Italy out from present decline are not easy nor short. As a consequence, a wide set of well behaved public policies are called for to try to improve the welfare of the people, eve in a no-&/or slowly growing economy. Tables, Figures. Adapted from the source document.

Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions in the new and potential EU Member states to those in the long-standing EU countries. Topics covered include: * A Comparative View of Taxation in the EU and in New Members * Tax Policy in EU New Members * Tax Policy in New Members under the Stability Pact * Tax Administration and the Black Economy. As well as investigating countries such as the Czech Republic, Estonia and the Baltics, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, this outstanding book contains a foreword by Vito Tanzi and will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and professionals in the fields of economics, politics, finance and European studies.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of tax systems and tax reforms in a number of Latin American countries since the early 1990a (TM)s, including Argentina and Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay. The authors present and discuss tax systems from a broad quantitative and historical perspective and describe the main taxes existing in each country, presenting the details of their institutional features. The existing interactions between the economic structure, the corporate tax system and the attraction of FDI inflows are of paramount importance and these

Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions in the new and potential EU Member states to those in the long-standing EU countries. Topics covered include: * A Comparative View of Taxation in the EU and in New Members * Tax Policy in EU New Members * Tax Policy in New Members under the Stability Pact * Tax Administration and the Black Economy. As well as investigating countries such as the Czech Republic, Estonia and the Baltics, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, this outstanding book contains a foreword by Vito Tanzi and will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and professionals in the fields of economics, politics, finance and European studies.