OECD: «Low productivity, poor investments and youth unemployment are holding back the Island»

The attractiveness of a territory like Sardinia is linked to many factors such as higher education institutions, access and quality of the internet, performance of the railway network, access to flights, affordable housing, entrepreneurship, environmental quality.

This emerges from the OECD report that is being presented today in Nuoro . The report is illustrated by Claire Charbit, head of the Regional Attractiveness Unit . It emerges that the Sardinian economy has low productivity, low investment and high youth unemployment compared to national and EU trends with a dependence on low value-added sectors that limits the potential for possible increases in productivity.

Although the Island has a high density of cultural heritage and a strong tourism sector, the relatively low employment in the cultural industry and the high seasonality of visitors suggest the opportunity to improve its attractiveness throughout the year.