According to both the OECD’s Interim Economic Outlook released in September and the average assessments of the analysts polled by Consensus Economics in the same month, output will grow by 0.8 per cent in Italy both this year and the next.
A less favourable outlook was depicted last 15 September by Confindustria’s Centre for Studies, which estimated an increase of 0.7 per cent this year, slowing to 0.5 per cent in 2017. Compared with the current legislation scenario, the Government’s policy scenario predicts sharply higher growth for next year (0.4 points) and lower inflation (0.8 points).