There is a South that is moving and Calabria is one of the regions protagonists of this dynamism. In the issues of two different reports from the Tagliacarne Study Center-Chambers of Commerce and the CGIA of Mestre there is a plot that describes this lively land that grows, produces, resists but is still poor. Tagliacarne describes a Calabria that in 2024 was able to score a 3.12% increase in added value, the third best national result after two other “sisters” from the South: Sardinia and Puglia. However, it is the South, as a whole, that runs at a speed one and a half times higher than that of the North: +2.89% versus +1.77%, while the Italian average stops at +2.14%. Numbers which are not enough to bridge the gap between the two Italys but which undermine the convention of an immobile South.
On the territorial map, in Calabria the Crotone area stands out, marking the most brilliant performance (+3.42%), while in absolute terms the Cosentino area remains the economic engine with 12.17 billion euros of added value. Ancient forces are moving behind the growth of the southern regions. Agriculture, once again the protagonist, marks a leap of +10.25% in Italy, the highest since historical series have been measured.
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