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Quality of life in Italian cities: a temporal comparison between before the crisis and after
No full textPurpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the changes in well-being in the Italian reality, in particular, through the study of major cities. The study is based on a set of data provided by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) with the aim to highlight the Italian urban situation and the comparison between the well-being situation assessed in a pre-crisis context and the one observed after it, in order to understand how events have influenced levels of well-being in the main Italian cities.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper aims to examine the quality of life (QoL) levels in the metropolitan cities, using data from the URBES report (a report that provides data and information concerning the Italian urban situation), published in 2013, which investigates QoL and well-being in major Italian cities. It is based on the framework of the “Benessere Equo e Sostenibile” report that appraises well-being in Italian regions by a great deal of variables belonging to 12 different dimensions. Using this data source, the authors will proceed to the construction of a composite well-being index.
Findings
The paper intends to show how the well-being level in Italian cities has changed in recent years, taking into consideration ten different dimensions of well-being. The need to consider different dimensions of well-being for its comprehensive evaluation is widely discussed in the literature, and the framework provided by ISTAT is innovative in this sense.
Originality/value
The paper presents an aggregate measure of well-being in Italian cities on the basis of new theoretical concepts and complete and detailed data
Analisi multidimensionale della deprivazione nella città di Genova
No full textThe first chapter summarizes the framework in which this work is part of a deprivation analysis. The second chapter is dedicated to a review of the main international and Italian indicators, and develops a new systematic review of two of the leading online scientific databases. The third chapter describes the methodology used for data processing and the construction of indicators. The fourth chapter collects the results of the study, the indexes obtained, their representation in deprivation classes, the comparison with the health indicator considered to represent premature mortality, and finally the comparison with the results of the literature
Development and Governance in the Ex-Soviet Union: An Empirical Inquiry
No full textConclusively, in 1992, the Soviet Union broke up and its 15 Republics gained independence. After the initial, difficult transition from planned to market economy, the Republics have shown different development paths. This paper analyses their degree of economic development. Following the growing interest in new and better measures of development, we elaborate an index of development, the Ex-Soviet Development Index (ESDI), based on a set of variables from the World Development Indicators database released by the World Bank. To do this, we select the variables through principal component analysis and calculate the ESDI using factorial analysis. Therefore, to test the wellsupported hypothesis that good governance has a key positive impact on development, we compare the ESDI with a proposed index of governance, the Ex-Soviet Governance Index (ESGI), elaborating data from the Worldwide Governance Indicators database of the World Bank. The correlation between ESDI and ESGI is shown being high as expected, and this allow us thinking that, in order to classify countries in classes, a cluster analysis with the two indices makes sense. The correlation between ESDI and GDP growth is almost zero. This confirms that the concept of socio-economic performance and development expressed by ESDI cannot be reduced to the growth rate
Analisi multidimensionale della deprivazione nella città di Genova
No full textThe first chapter summarizes the framework in which this work is part of a deprivation analysis. The second chapter is dedicated to a review of the main international and Italian indicators, and develops a new systematic review of two of the leading online scientific databases. The third chapter describes the methodology used for data processing and the construction of indicators. The fourth chapter collects the results of the study, the indexes obtained, their representation in deprivation classes, the comparison with the health indicator considered to represent premature mortality, and finally the comparison with the results of the literature
Is there a two-speed Europe also in the well-being?
No full textEurostat databases provide forty indicators relevan
t to measure the well-being in different
countries. In this paper we propose to identify dif
ferent levels of wellbeing in two European
areas, by the analysis of a sample of Centre-North
Europe (Sweden, Germany, France, Britain
and the Netherlands, which are among the most advan
ced states), and a sample of
Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal and
Greece).
The goal of the research is to grasp and quantify t
he specificities of these countries in a
phase when inequalities grow. We have represented w
elfare through 11 dimensions based on 77
variables and analyzed the differences in each of t
hem between the countries in the two areas by
Pena's Distance and MPI, two different methodologie
s – parametric and non-parametric – that
allow the combination of variables in a way consist
ent with our objective
Economic, Environmental and Social: Three Components to Measure the Perception of Sustainable Development
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