Italy's Mezzogiorno Kersten Knipp / sgb 08/23/2015 August 23, 2015. Recent figures confirm that southern Italy is massively underdeveloped economically - and this also has an impact on its ...

Italy’s gold and foreign currency reserves, at last official count, stood at $3,313,000,000, topped internationally only by those of West Germany and the United States.

The entire mezzogiorno gets a mere 1% of Italy's already low share of such investment. Perhaps the biggest concern of all is the pervasiveness of organised crime.

Francesco Mazzei never wanted to be a chef. Growing up in Calabria, southwest Italy, he cared more about his football than his food.Having worked in his uncle’s ice cream shop from an early age ...