A progress report: The ‘quality of life’ in a method of integrated planning: Aspects of an Italian research project, ‘Progetto Quadro’

This paper describes the main concepts and approaches of a method of integrated planning developed in Italy. This work, still in the research phase, is sponsored by the Italian government agency responsible for economic planning.

Formally entitled ‘Progetto Quadro’, the project involves construction of a reference framework composed of a set of highly disaggregated socio-economic accounts. This includes a resource-use analysis of structural and functional interdependencies of the economic system and of its operation with regard to a societally inspired program-structure.