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Quality of Life 2010: first Bolzano, Napoli queued

center had already done in the past, one in 2001 with a replica in 1995 and the other in 2007. Now, coming to the finish line almost side by side: Bolzano e Trento with 637 points, after a split, with 636. It's two autonomous provinces of Trentino Alto Adige to conquer the summit of the standings 2010 della «Qualità della vita», l'annuale ricerca del Sole 24 Ore.

Un risultato che comunque non sorprende, visto che le due realtà si sono sempre messe in evidenza anche nelle passate edizioni dell'indagine. La pagella meno soddisfacente tocca invece per la prima volta a Napoli, un voto – pure questo – che non giunge a sorpresa, alla luce del penultimo posto occupato nel 2009 e delle recenti cronache. Va detto, però, che nei due decenni di «Qualità della vita» la maglia nera è stata prevalentemente indossata da realtà siciliane e calabresi e solo due volte da una campana (nel lontano 1991 da Caserta e nel 1993 da Benevento). Quanto to the protagonists - both positive and negative - of 2009, Trieste moves just three steps (it is fourth after Sondrio, that the tendering procedure "bronze") and nine salt Agrigento, still unable to "shake up" the concentrations of Sicilian group in the tail (Trapani, Caltanissetta, Palermo, Catania).

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Like every year, the research explores and compares - through statistics - the livability of the 107 Italian provinces six areas (living, business and professional services, health and environment, population, public policy and Leisure ), each in turn "suspect" by six indicators (see methodology on page 2). Numbers and a comparison of the performance rankings of territorial develop "stage" and the final report card (shown at right).

few examples to explain what factors contributed to the success of the two autonomous provinces, and what has weighed on Naples.

Well, Bolzano stands in the business and professional (where he is also the first for employment women, almost one in two women with a job), but comes out well in the safety (it is the least affected by car theft, only 9 per 100 thousand inhabitants in the first half of 2009) and in services / environment / health (high l 'index for the disposal of civil cases and review of Legambiente). Similar strands are expressed good performance of Trento, the better placed of the "links" in living standards (for example, has almost no inflation and an interesting level of consumption per capita) and population (it has an enviable 74 per thousand the total number of young graduates).

SOURCE: Ross Cadeo (ilsole24ore.it)