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The principal objective of the evaluation was to analyse the European Union’s (EU) cooperation through the European Commission (EC) with Djibouti for the period of 1996-2010, to highlight the impact of the implemented programmes and to permit the EC to account for the allocated funding. The...
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There is a growing realisation of the importance of strenghthening the preventive, developmental, promotive, transformative, integrative and re-integrative context of social protection in sub-saharan Africa - through ensuring that poor and vulnerable people are linked to labour market and...
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Inspired by a European spirit, the EU's national economic and social councils and the EESC worked together tirelessly to create a European network of economic and social councils. Thanks to the commitment of the presidents and members of all the councils, the network has helped forge systematic...
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As the European Union grows in size and diversity, it becomes increasingly challenging to summarise the impact of state actions on the lives of citizens. One approach to this complexity is to group countries based on characteristics relevant to quality of life. This report develops a country...
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Mit zunehmender Größe und Vielfalt der Europäischen Union wird es immer schwieriger, die Auswirkungen staatlicher Maßnahmen auf das Leben der Bürger zusammenzufassen. Diese Komplexität lässt sich u. a. dadurch angehen, dass Länder anhand von Merkmalen, die für die Lebensqualität von...
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developing countries as a means of reducing poverty; - Securing energy supplies to the EU; - Improving nuclear safety in the … Former Soviet Union (FSU). The first goal is increasingly perceived as an important dimension of the fight against poverty …
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Poverty increases were recorded mostly in terms of severe material deprivation and low work intensity rates starting … while measures of relative poverty do not appear to have clearly identifiable drivers, income per capita and unemployment … exhibit a significant explanatory power for the severe material deprivation and anchored at risk of poverty rates. In …
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Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...
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There has been much discussion of the differences in macroeconomic performance and prospects between the US, Japan and the euro area. Using Markov-switching techniques, in this paper we identify and compare specifically their major business-cycle features and examine the case for a common...
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