ITAL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Grazia Deledda, Big Babies, Gianni Vattimo
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Grazia deledda reading- she was the 2nd woman to win the nobel prize for literature and she only had roughly a 4th grade education. Highest population in italy- around 1500 the italian economy was rising, and italy"s population doubled from the 19th to the 20 centuries despite high levels of emigration. Higher population in large cities and also tend to live in northern italy. Divorce and separations are becoming more common; marriages end in divorce, so marriages don"t last as long and fewer children are born because of it. Declining fertility rates after wwii, around 2000 it started to decline again. Out of 226 countries, italy is ranked 215 with a birth rate of 8. 70. Advantages- aging population, higher demand of drugs and medicine= benefits pharmaceutical sector. Disadvantages- health services for the elderly result in higher government expenditure on health. Advantages- maintains workforce tax that funds health care and government benefits for the elderly.
