The 2017 Budget Act contains measures concerning the regulation of pharmaceutical expenditure, tying part of healthcare funding to the purchase of innovative medicines and vaccines and modifying the system of expenditure ceilings and reimbursement from the pharmaceutical industry, the so-called payback mechanism. The Focus (in Italian) analyses (more…)
The 2017 Budgetary Planning Report is devoted to analysing the 2017 Economic and Financial Document (EFD) and examines the substance of the parliamentary hearing of 19 April, developing and updating where appropriate, expanding on the analysis of the macroeconomic and public finance forecasts, (more…)
The Report on recent economic developments of the Parliamentary Budget Office forecasts that Italy will close the second quarter of 2017 with GDP growth of 0.3 per cent, a slight acceleration on the 0.2 per cent posted in the first quarter. (more…)
