Italy Today 2005.

Part I. General considerations
Part II. Italian society in the year 2005
Signals of a tendential economic recovery
(Sparks of economic vitality; The service of economic vitality; The service sector's crive; The "polygamic" evolution of economic districts; Consumption soars towards intangible goods; The flourishing of excellence in research; Betting on professionalism)
Outlines of discontinuity in social homogeneity
(The low horizon on the new rich; The hardships of those without wealth; The powerlessness of individual aspects; The long march of social networks)
The political factor of imperfect evolution
(The chaotic proliferation of decision-making centers; Decision-making conflicts; The weakening of managerial functions)
Part III. Areas of social policy
Education and training
(The growing importance of lifelong learning, amidst an aging population and the lengthening of active life; The difficult relationship between Italians and foreign languages; Orientating and exploiting the talent of women; The asymmetries in the university system; The weak aspect of the European Social Fund)
Labor, professionalism, representation
(Labor markets in deceleration; The underground sector: less business and more work; The fall in value of the difference in wages; Harassment and abuse in the workplace: the silent unease; The future of flexibility in working hours; Women resisting the labor market; The reverse cycle of intellectual professions; Super cadres and managers)
The welfare system
(Innovations in the health system amidst a need for information, athical doubts and daily practice; Welfare Investments when the state is no longer sufficient; In search of quality: ospitalization mobility; The static quality of the generational changeover; The welfare system's still too large-meshed net; Welfare's infinite work in progress)
Territory and networks
(The real estate market: an extended success; Social housing: local policies for sustainable rents; Entertainment, a new driver of urban development; The tumultuous growth of large retail centers; Mobility projects in urban competitiveness policies: Turin's case; Four levers to relaunch local public transport; Road accidents: towards safer behaviors)
The economic elements of development
(Weak recovery brings change; The Italian industry to come; Banks, businesses and Basel 2: truths and false myths of an announced crisis; The distribution networks system, evolution and needs of trade in Italy; The expansion of cooperatives; Symbols and new values of consumption in Italy; The costs of leisure time; Trends in energy consumption and customer loyalty in a liberalized market)
Part IV. Means and procedures
Communication and culture
(More and more Italians are using advanced technologies; A television bubble that is blown every day; The success of the radio continues but the effects are neutral; Paper survives in the digital world; Before buying, people first check the internet; Daily newspapers hold, people like the free ones; TV and minors the "third player"'s struggle to grow)
Innovative processes
(Return to the digital city: integrated online services for the territory; Towards exponential collaborations: the networks of networks; Tapping into horizontal relations within the public administration; Italian households are becoming more and more technological)
Legality and immigration
(The debate on security and legality picks up; Living with immigrants; Security in Italian provinces; Prostitution and trafficking: wo worlds that are growing increasingly close; Uncontrollable events and irrenuonceable habits; Awaiting the right to vote; The growing entrepreneurship of foreigners; The difficult integration of second generations; Awareness of immigrants' right to healthcare is slowly growing)
Appendix
Looking through figures
Background
Censis: an observer on the watch.

Serie: Varie

Subjects: Censis