Italy is still faced with difficulties that will have to be overcome, thereby laying the foundations for improvements tomorrow; there is a need for behaviour and policies that will ensure the saving available is used to strengthen productive investment at home.
Over the last five years direct investment by Italian firms expanded substantially; the inflow remained virtually unchanged; the balance showed a deficit of 30 trillion lire. The quest for higher profits in a climate of renewed confidence in stability and economic growth can be directed towards expanding the scale of production and investment, with a view to creating employment.