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#Italy: Slowing economy, surging jobs, migrant burden, uncertain 2024, just like the US. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

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🗓️ 7 October 2023

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#Italy: Slowing economy, surging jobs, migrant burden, uncertain 2024, just like the US. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2023/10/05/6-way-migrant-summit-agrees-8-action-points_28745128-7399-407f-88f7-f53734f31bd3.html

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batcher. The American economy, the jobs report's

0:09.9

strong, inflation, high. The question's about the Federal Reserve and the road ahead. Recession?

0:16.7

More rate hikes? Unknown. So I go to Italy to see if Italy's economy is any easier to

0:22.0

understand in this time of recovering from the pandemic and dealing with the war in

0:27.1

Europe and the energy question. The rents of Fiori of the Enzada Foundation is in Milan.

0:33.0

The rents we've talked about the Italian economy in recovery and it has been doing better

0:38.5

than its neighborhood. What is the prospect now that the whole world is again seeing unacceptable

0:44.8

inflation? Good evening to you. Good evening John and good evening to all the radio

0:49.6

listeners. I'd like to tell you that the situation in few words is a situation of lights and shadows.

0:56.1

Why lights and shadows? Simply because right now in Italy we have still a grow but this is a

1:04.9

very moderate grow and the margin of for the government to put new resources to reduce taxes

1:15.3

and improve the economy have been eroded by some measure taken by the previous government in

1:24.0

order to support part of our economy particularly in the area of civilian works and this let's say

1:32.1

measure are eroding a lot of resources available to our government for the next year. On the other

1:40.6

side the inflection rate is reducing but still very high and this is causing an erosion of the

1:47.5

power of buying of the people in Italy that normally suffer because they salary average wise are

1:55.0

pretty low compared to the average in all the other European countries but the lights are

2:03.2

indeed in the air of the increase of the number of employees. I mean the contract without any

2:12.3

terms of end are increasing the number of of contract with predefined terms are also increasing the

2:23.3

number of women that are going to work are increasing and there is still a large demand of companies

2:33.2

service group that are looking for jobs and they don't find enough people to cover the vacancy

2:44.9

position. So let's tell you it's it's a situation pretty complicated and I don't know what will be

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