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SUMMARY
In this paper we want to provide a contribution to the analysis of territorial
disparities considering Italian LLS. Having recourse to value added per capita, at
this particular disaggregation level of the national production apparatus, we aimed
to point out the particular structure of income differentials, beyond the traditional
dichotomy North-South characterizing our Country. The income per capita
represents, in the words of Mamalakis, “the best available indicator of levels,
growth rates and differences of SNA welfare between and within nations”. We
have considered the data provided by ISTAT at LLS level to build a convenient
indicator of the economic performance at such a detailed geographic partition. So,
we have realized a suited modification of the selected indicator. Through the use
of this new version of the VA p.c. we considered the patterns of spatial association
among the 784 LLS in the period 1996-2000 and for the 686 LLS in the interval
2001-2005 by means of ESDA that allows us to detect spatial patterns of data
identifying, in the meantime, cases that are unusual given their location on the map.
Actually, our analysis allowed to take into account the particular configuration of
income inequalities across the LLS and, above all, the changes undergone in the
periods examined. In fact, the persistence of a marked North-South dualism has
been accompanied by growing economic disparities among the LLS which are
limited local realities characterized by a particular production specialization inside
of the larger administrative regions they belong to.
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Maria DAVÌ, Professore Ordinario presso il Dipartimento di Contabilità Nazionale
e Analisi dei Processi Sociali della Facoltà di Economia, Università di Palermo
Isidora BARBACCIA, Dottoranda presso il CIRMET, Facoltà di Economia,
Università di Palermo