The “citizenship income” payment will boost Italy’s GDP growth next year by only about 0.1%, in part because take-up has been lower than predicted. While this also lowers the cost of the policy, the government will need to find much bigger savings to avoid breaching the 3% of GDP deficit limit in 2020.
Subscriber content
Read this in full, free
Start a free trial and use one of your 10 free starter credits to unlock this piece.