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Families and childcare services - Conference report

Bennett, John - 2008

This report presents the conclusions from a seminar on families and childcare services held in Ankara, Turkey, on 5 June 2008. The seminar was organised by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), in cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Labour...

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Public sector efficiency

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2003

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...

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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004

A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

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Current accounts dynamics in OECD and EU acceding countries

Bussière, Matthieu; Fratzscher, Marcel; Müller, Gernot J. - 2004

The paper extends the standard intertemporal model of the current account to include two important stylised facts: (1) the persistence of current account positions and (2) the relevance of the fiscal balance. Specifically, the paper derives a closed form solution for consumption in the presence...

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Institutions and service employment

Messina, Julián - 2004

We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...

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Addressing biodiversity and habitat preservation through measures applied under the Common Agricultural Policy

Jana Poláková; Graham Tucker; Kaley Hart - Institute for European Environmental Policy - 2011

Based on a thorough review of the relationship between agriculture and biodiversity, the purpose of this study is to … and implementation for sustaining biodiversity and associated ecosystem services through agriculture, and how their role … can be enhanced in the future to contribute towards meeting the EU’s biodiversity goals. The interactions between forest …

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Larger than tigers : Inputs for a strategic approach to biodiversity conservation in Asia ; Synthesis report

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Kommunikation - 2018

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Towards a global biological information infrastructure

Saarenmaa, Hannu (contributor); Nielsen, E. S. (contributor) - Europäische Umweltagentur; European Environment Agency - 2002

This report describes the state of the art in biodiversity informatics in the field of entomology. The seven papers in …

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High nature value farmland

Hoogeveen, Ybele (contributor); … - Europäische Umweltagentur; European Environment Agency - 2004

measures appear insufficient to prevent further biodiversity decline.. …

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An inventory of biodiversity indicators in Europe, 2002

Delbaere, Ben - 2004

This review of biodiversity-related indicators was undertaken to support the development of a core set of environmental … developed to assess aspects of biodiversity at the national, international or global scale, but only a limited number of them …

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