Efficiency in the use of such a sizeable amount of resources and the capacity to secure them with the least  12  The Governor’s Concluding Remarks Annual Report 2020  BANCA D’ITALIA  distortionary instruments both help to determine Italy’s potential growth.
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.