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Sector that gathers the institutional units whose primary functions are to produce for the community non-market services and doing a redistribution of income and wealth of the country. The main resources are made up by compulsory payments made directly or indirectly by units belonging to other sectors. The government sector is divided into three sub-sectors: a) central government including the State administration in the strict sense (ministries) and the constitutional bodies, the central agencies with jurisdiction over the territory of the country (Anas, Cri, Coni, CNR, Istat, ISAE etc..) b) local public entities including public bodies whose competence is limited to one part of the territory. Includes: Regions, Provinces, Municipalities, public hospitals and other local economic, cultural, service, chambers of commerce, universities, etc. EPT. C) social security institutions that include the central institutional units and local, whose principal activity is to provide social benefits financed through mandatory contributions in general (INPS, Inail etc..).

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