The income of Sardinian families is increasing : more than 10% between 2019 and 2022. This is what emerges from the analysis of the Guglielmo Tagliacarne Study Center and Unioncamere on the 2022 estimates of the disposable income of consumer families ( +10.4% ), measure of the spending capacity of the population resident in Italy.
«Sardinia has overcome the challenge of the pandemic with strength and tenacity – says the President of the Region, Christian Solinas. The Unioncamere study shows how the South is growing in Italy and Sardinia is among the regions that record a greater increase in families' spending power . The Sardinian entrepreneurial system has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for resilience in recent years, carrying on activities and safeguarding jobs in extremely difficult conditions."
«This has ensured that the island's economy continues to grow . The work done in recent years as a regional council - continues the president - has served to accompany and support the balance of a system that risked being severely compromised by an unprecedented crisis, caused first by the pandemic and then by the conflict in Ukraine, with the consequent increase in prices, in particular energy prices. Targeted policies have allowed us to make the effects of an unprecedented economic situation weigh as little as possible on the Sardinians." Overall, the study by the Tagliacarne Institute highlights a decrease in the gap between the South and the rest of the country regarding family incomes in the 4 years between 2019 and 2022.
The per capita disposable income in the South has recovered ground, also due to the effect of redistributive policies: if the 14,432 euros in 2019 represented 74.9% of the Italian average value, the 16,046 euros in 2022 constitute 76.0% of it: a framework that gives the image of a country less unequal with respect to the geography of the GDP. If the inflation process in recent years has affected the South more than the rest of Italy, contributing to widening the gaps in real purchasing power, it is clear from the study that it is still necessary to intervene on the «growth of the production base to ensure greater employment quality and a higher consistency of family income, escaping from the precarious situations that are most widespread in the South today", as highlighted by the general director of the Centro Studi Tagliacarne Gaetano Fausto Esposito.
