This special report has benefited from interviews with many sources, not all cited in the text and some off the record. The author would like to thank in particular:
Daniele Albertazzi, Vincenzo Amendola, Fabrizio Barca, Francesca Bettio, Tito Boeri, Carlo Calenda, Marta Cartabia, Giuseppe Catania, Lorenzo Codogno, Vittorio Colao, Carlo Cottarelli, Guido Crosetto, Roberto D’Alimonte, Francesco Donaldo, Loredana Federico, Raffaele Fitto, Adriano Giannola, Francesco Giavazzi, Alfonso Giordano, Enrico Giovannini, Ferdinando Giugliano, Francesco Grillo, Roberto Gualtieri, Oddone Incisa, Roberto Lagalla, Salvatore Landini, Fabio Lepore, Enrico Letta, Vincenzo De Luca, Gaetano Manfredi, Giampiero Massolo, Fabio Mazzola, Giovanni Melillo, Silvia Merler, Luca di Cordero di Montezemolo, Mario Monti, Leoluca Orlando, Giovanni Orsina, Agnese Ortolani, Marco Ottaviani, Analisa Pacini, Gianfranco Pasquino, Francesco Polsinelli, Lorenzo Pregliasco, Romano Prodi, Marco Protopapa, Stefano del Punta, Lucrezia Reichlin, Matteo Renzi, Remo Ruffini, Giuseppe Sala, Roberto Scarpinato, Luigi Scazzieri, Domenico Siniscalco, Carlo Alberto Sisto, Davide Tabarelli, Fabrizio Tassinari, Pasquale Terraciano, Natalie Tocci, Alina Trabattoni, Alfonso Urso and Ignazio Visco.
The author would also like to thank the Italian embassy in London and the British embassy in Rome.
Among published sources, the special report draws especially on the following studies and books:
IMF Article IV consultations with Italy, 2018-2022
OECD Economic Surveys of Italy, April 2019 and September 2021
“Doing Business in Italy”, World Bank, 2020
“Spain vs Italy”, Economics Research, Unicredit, January 2020
“Boosting Italy’s female labour participation”, Economics Research, Unicredit, May 2021
“Italy’s Recovery Plan”, Economics Research, Unicredit, July 2021
“Challenging myths about Italy’s economy” by Philipp Heimberger, November 2022
“Italy after Draghi”. “What Giorgia Meloni would mean for Europe” Both by Luigi Scazzieri. Centre for European Reform, July and September 2022
“The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline” by Andrea Capussela, 2018
“Meritocracy, Growth and Lessons from Italy’s Decline” by Lorenzo Codogno and Giampaolo Galli, 2022
“The Force of Destiny” by Christopher Duggan, 2007
“Good Italy, Bad Italy” by Bill Emmott, 2012
“Modern Italy” by John Foot, second edition, 2014
“The Pursuit of Italy” by David Gilmour, 2011
“A History of Contemporary Italy 1943-1980”. “Italy and its Discontents, 1980-2001” Both by Paul Ginsborg, 1990 and 2001
“The Italians” by John Hooper, 2015
