A place-based perspective for welfare recalibration in the italian inner peripheries : the case of the italian strategy for inner areas

When a large proportion of the population has problems findingschools in which the levels of education and teacher quality are equivalentto those guaranteed in larger urban centres, hospitals capable ofguaranteeing essential health services (first aid; emergency; birthing;transfusions) or adequate internal and external mobility systems, thequestion of constitutionality and right to full citizenship constituents ariseon one hand; while on the other, a vicious circle of marginality is triggered,in which demographic haemorrhage follows a process of continualreduction of these services, precluding the usefulness of any sort ofdevelopment intervention. Starting from this assumption, the public policyNational Strategy for Inner Areas works to guarantee the inner citizenshiprights as a pre-condition to foster economic development. The articleillustrates the welfare question in the Italian inner peripheries, analyzing thetheory and methods of intervention of the public policy. [Publisher's Text].