Lasting results can be achieved through budget recomposition: devoting a higher share to productive investments, sharing the tax burden more equitably, improving the equalisation capacity of public transfers. These results also rely on structural interventions to improve the underlying capacity of the Italian economy to post higher growth, above and beyond short-term stimuli.
Any improvement achieved thanks to public intervention in the areas of income and its distribution will be the more solid, the more it is rooted in solid funding measures and the more carefully it is designed to take account of the incentives to create income and jobs, this being the most reliable way to combat the spread of poverty.