In this essay I will be highlighting key issue that occurred in Italy during the times when Giolitti served as prime minister, I will discuss his key principles and the ideas that he had manifested and see wether they had good implications on Italy and were successful, or wether the liberal goverment had let down the majority of the Italian population. Giolitti was part of the liberal government under a unified Italy so he had many challenges to face.
Many historians might argue that Giolitti was a good prime minister and a successful one too, whilst I do not agree with this Giolitti did bring about many reforms which helped the Italian population. One reform which Giolitti introduced was opening up new banks across Italy, many could argue that these banks allowed Giolitti to be politically
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Futhermoe; the banks were very sucessful as they financed public infrastructure such as: railways and public works. The banks being nationalised allowed Giolitti to achieve some of his aims, for example, the funding meant that from 1900-07 public infrastructure sector saw an increase of 50% more being spent by the goverment. Giolittindecided that even though Italy had been unified the country was still divided in ways, using the money from nationalised banks enabled him to build trains, this slightly closed the gaps between the north and the south, the trains meant the southerns now had forms of transports and they could get jobs by helping to build the trains. The trains also meant that Gioliiti had slightly solved the issue between the divide between the North and the south in geographical and physical terms as now it was much more easier to get to one side of the country this meant that some of the working classes might adhere to Giolitti. Lastly; the railway allowed Giolitti to achieve some of his political aims as the threat of