Una Questione meridionale europea

A European Southern Question emerged at the beginning of the 1950s, when disparities between Mediterranean countries and those of Central and Northern Europe became evident. The framing of the problem of a large continental South took place within international organizations, particularly in the OEEC, which later became the OECD, the forum for experimenting with European integration. As the issue of European underdevelopment emerged, Italian experiences in the South became, on a technical level, a model to export and, on a political level, a response to the problem of backwardness that had become international. The Vanoni Plan, which marks its seventieth anniversary, brought together an international network of experts, while new disciplines of Development Economics and Economics of Education emerged. Since then, the European Southern Question has evolved within international institutions, continuing to this day: changed but not resolved.