ABSTRACT
This assessment reviews the changes which have affected Italian financing and the administration in recent years. In particular, it considers why public administration is in a worse state than finance, and why this issue has been relatively neglected. An assessment of the extent to which the questions of finance and administration are linked is made first. The evolution and current state of both issues is then analysed, before explaining why moves have been made towards greater financial rigour when, by contrast, the public administration remains largely unreformed.
