Roma's planned new stadium would deliver nearly 20 billion euros ($21.7 billion) in additional revenues to the Italian capital over the next decade, according to a university study on the severely delayed project. The privately financed 1.6 billion euro ($1.7 billion) project would also increase Rome's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 18.5 billion euros ($20 billion) by 2026, according to research by Rome's Sapienza University. ''This is one of the most ambitious urban regeneration works that Rome and Italy has ever seen,'' Giuseppe Ciccarone, Sapienza's dean of economics, said Monday.
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