Costs and benefits of insularity

26 September 20204 years ago babelfish

Diana Zuncheddu's post

Being born and living in Sardinia costs each of its inhabitants 5,700 euros a year. It is the synthesis of the synthesis of a study by the Bruno Leoni Institute written by Carlo Amenta, Carlo Stagnaro and Luca Vitale, which recognizes as the very fact of being born and living on an island – the only Italian so far from the continent – is a perennial, economically measurable disadvantage.

Giving a number to this concept – a number given not by chance, indeed, with a precise econometric calculation – is, I imagine, comforting for the Sardinians resident: it is okay to be complaining, but here there is more, an objective condition of disadvantage .

However, this is not an excuse to sit down: the study cites data on the lack of infrastructure; the results among the lowest in Italy in the Invalsi tests of the first grade school; public services among the worst, comparing them with the rest of Italy and for some parameters of Europe.

If distance and isolation are a disadvantage, someone has also put their effort into making sure that there are many centenarians – and in fact health seems to be fine – but also that the teachers are not, on average, very up to date. , and that the elephantine bureaucratic apparatus does not favor innovation.

Yet, it is said, the distance has certainly favored the uniqueness of culture and traditions, which together with a delicate landscape, to be protected, but beautiful, could attract tourists from everywhere.
In the meantime, those who have moved for some time to include insularity in the Constitution are doing well.

And everyone would do well, as indicated between the lines in the study, to copy those who have distinguished themselves so far for having used autonomy as a force, and not as a penalty. The people of Trentino, for example.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/costi-e-benefici-dellinsularita/ on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:10:58 +0000.