There is considerable room for improvement in the quality of infrastructures and public services, in the distribution of the tax burden, made unfair by high levels of tax evasion and avoidance, and in the effectiveness of the social welfare network, fragmented by the stratification of regulatory interventions.
The severe recession caused by the pandemic has restored State action to a central role, both in emergency interventions in favour of households and firms and in drawing up and implementing a strategy for recovery and for boosting development. The breadth of the response to the crisis has reignited the debate over the role of the public sector in the economy.