Italy’s Economic Miracle: How a Poor Country Became an Industrial Power

In little more than a decade, Italy moved from post-war reconstruction and widespread poverty to rapid industrialisation. The so-called economic miracle grew out of international aid, European integration, public and private investment, and vast internal migration. It changed consumption, cities and work, yet it neither erased the divide between North and South nor shared prosperity equally.

Italian worker in the 1960s beside a Fiat 500, with a factory and an urban suburb in the background
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