3  Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (2001), “La competitività dell’Italia”, Speech held at the Congress on Small-sized enterprises, Parma, 17 March. 4  World Bank (2004), Doing Business Indicators.
4  BIS Review 20/2005  A sense of urgency to implement structural reforms was transmitted to European policy-makers last February when the European Commission proposed a “Partnership for Growth and Jobs”5 as the core of a renewed Lisbon strategy, by putting forward a program of priority actions.