To organize the compilation and report of budgetproposalsfor agriculturalprojectssuch as the specialcentral governmentfiscaltransferpayments, andsupervise andinspectthefundutilization.
But it is loans made to Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs), special companies set up to fund ambitious and often redundant infrastructure projects, that have attracted the greatest attention.
But these are for specialprojects, not running costs, and most fear that the fund's success has merely crowded out donations that would otherwise have gone directly to them.
Until recently, San Benedetto benefited from the Cassa del Mezzogiorno, a specialfund that paid for vast and often ill-conceived projects all over Italy's poor south.