ROME (Reuters) - Her family name means "little severe one", and Paola Severino means to live up to it in her crusade against judicial inefficiency which is helping to stifle Italy's chronically weak economy. Seemingly endless legal delays such as in settling commercial disputes are estimated to cost up to one percentage point in Italian GDP growth - not that the economy is growing at all now - and the justice minister wants to tell hesitant investors that she is serious about solving the problem. ...
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May 14th, 2012
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