economies. We also assess the efficiency of public spending in redistributing income by using a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis …

rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …

process, socioeconomic and environmental features. Type A includes areas of periurban agriculture surrounding the metropolitan … cities, type B areas of intensive agriculture with high concentration of agroindustry, type C hilly areas with highly … diversified agriculture and valuable landscape, and type D high hills and mountains with forests and protected areas. Areas A and …

firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered … located in participating economies. Enlargement has, instead, two contrasting effects. It improves the accessibility of EU …