Nine commitments for growth

Translation by Kate Page

«You see, Governor, things only get done in Italy when the house is already on fire!»: this was the exasperated exclamation with which Giuliano Amato – the then Prime Minister of Italy – greeted Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the then Governor of Banca d'Italia, when the latter visited him at Palazzo Chigi during those crucial hours of the crisis ...