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BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 John Rossant |
Italy's Coming Credit Crunch As a wave of corporate paper comes due, cash-strapped companies are in peril |
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Gail Edmondson |
Italy Needs A Renaissance In Corporate And Market Regulation Will public outrage over Parmalat finally bring new rules with sharp teeth? |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Joseph Weber |
Auditors Asleep At The Wheel. Sound Familiar? Parmalat's collapse seems like deja vu all over again. That's because two of the tainted parties are accounting firms: Grant Thornton and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. One red-faced party is Italy's government, whose effort to build safeguards didn't work. |
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Christina Passariello |
Why Italians Are Saying "Arrivederci" The country's best and brightest are moving abroad to further their careers |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 |
Italy: Trying To Ease The Pension Squeeze Is Italy getting serious about pension reform? Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has made it the focal point of his 2004 budget, even taking the unusual move of going on national television to plead his case. |
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 James Mehring |
Italy: One-Time Fixes Won't Do the Trick With Italy's rapidly aging population, pension reforms are needed. Otherwise, reducing budget deficits will become increasingly more difficult. |
Wired August 2003 Josh McHugh |
The Lost City of Venice For centuries, St. Mark's Square has been slowly slipping closer to Atlantis. Here's how a massive system of floodgates could turn the tide. |
Fast Company August 2002 Ian Wylie |
La Dolce Vita, Internet Style Colletta di Castelbianco is a 13th-century Italian village that was on the verge of extinction -- until an architect gave it a new design and Internet connectivity gave it a new lease on life. The story of how it became a haven for mobile professionals. |
Salon.com July 9, 2002 Paul Festa |
"Mussolini," by R.J.B. Bosworth He fought duels, seduced women, crashed planes, allied with Hitler, lost a war and ran Italy into the ground, but at heart Il Duce considered himself an artist. |
IDB America Jul/Aug 2000 |
Bureaucrats reborn Italy's civil service is undergoing a renaissance. According to Franco Bassanini, Italy's minister of public management, until quite recently his country's bureaucracy was characterized by "islands of excellence in a sea of general inefficiency"... |
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