Effective Foreign Aid, Economic Integration and Subsidiarity: Lessons from Europe

An importance source of finance for poorer economies, is foreign aid; this paper examines some controversies surrounding its provision. The advanced economies have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to the developing world over the last several decades; although this has done much good in some cases, many of these countries have grown very little, especially during the last two decades of the twentieth century. In fact some have argued that this aid has actually hindered development by creating perverse incentives and hindering democratic governance. Thus it would appear that much of this money has been wasted, but whose fault has it been and what can be done to improve the situation in the coming decades? This paper analyze these aid issues and propose that the answer to these questions can be partially found by examining the European experience in proving assistance to its disadvantaged regions. Of particular importance in this regard has been the way aid has been used to promote economic integration and how it has been distributed using the subsidiary principle.Development aid, economic integration, Europe, subsidiarity, aid for trade

Effective Foreign Aid, Economic Integration and Subsidiarity: Lessons from Europe

The paper shows that the question that is relevant for the debate on the efficacy of development assistance is not so much as an issue of how much, but rather for what. In view of the growing awareness of ODA’s inefficiency in achieving intended aims, this paper proposes an alternative approach to development assistance policies – economic integration and subsidiarity provides the conditions necessary for ODA to produce higher rates of economic growth on a sustainable basis. Europe is an excellent case in point, in this context. Europe has in the last decades experienced a number of success stories in moving out of poverty and onto sustainable economic growth. The secret of success has been the push towards economic integration, and the adoption of economic reforms at the local, national, and regional level conducive to economic growth. The recipient countries of development assistance have much to learn from the European experience.foreign aid, economic integration, subsidiarity

Euro-Mediterranean Integration and Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges

An overview of current institutional cooperation, economic conditions and challenges in the Mediterranean region.Mediterranean, Europe, Economic conditions, institutional cooperation

L\u2019assicurazione della responsabilit\ue0 professionale: un punto di svolta

L\u2019introduzione in Italia di un regime di assicurazione obbligatoria per i professionisti offre l\u2019opportunit\ue0 di una riflessione sul sistema delle professioni, sulle sue carenze e sulla transizione in corso. Il saggio analizza il mercato del lavoro dei servizi professionali nel nostro Paese e cerca di cogliere gli aspetti qualificanti delle trasformazioni in corso attraverso il nesso essenziale tra professioni e assicurazioni. Dopo aver analizzato la crisi delle professioni, sotto la spinta delle tendenze contrapposte all\u2019estensione dei settori professionalizzati e alla perdita dei connotati di specificit\ue0 dei servizi corrispondenti, il saggio spiega come e perch\ue9 l\u2019assicurazione svolga un ruolo essenziale nei mercati professionali. L\u2019analisi dell\u2019incertezza e la gestione dei rischi consente di trovare equilibri pi\uf9 avanzati nel rapporto tra concorrenza e regolamentazione dei servizi professionali. Lo studio passa in rassegna le novit\ue0 del quadro normativo, la risposta ai fenomeni di malpractise, le prospettive e gli ostacoli che si frappongono allo sviluppo di un moderno mercato di servizi e di assicurazioni professionali, proponendo infine alcuni interventi di policy che potrebbero accelerare la modernizzazione

Promoting the Quality of Official Statistics: the Role of International Cooperation

International cooperation and dialogue are powerful tools for enhancing statistical quality. Activities aiming at setting statistical standards and norms as part of quality assurance strategies have taken place for almost 200 years, not only at the national but also at the international level. This paper focuses on the role that international cooperation can play to strengthen the systems and the processes for statistical quality enhancement. It provides an overview of the main theoretical approaches to quality, their evolution through time and their links with the economic and social context. Several important cases of international cooperation are then discussed with a view to illustrating the range and variety of the aspects underpinning data quality. Among them: the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, the data quality frameworks set by the IMF and Eurostat, the various standards and classifications in all major fields of statistics from Censuses to national accounts, the Paris-21 initiative for statistical capacity building in transition and developing countries, etc. The paper concludes by highlighting the main challenges and directions for future research

Euro-Mediterranean Integration and Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges

An overview of current institutional cooperation, economic conditions and challenges in the Mediterranean regio