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FOREST FIRES: causes and contributing factors in Europe
Bassi, Samuela; Kettunen, Manuela - 2008
forest fires have been influenced by forest management, extreme weather events and climate change, territorial planning …
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Implementation of the EU Salt Reduction Framework ; Results of Member States survey
Directorate-General Health and Consumers - 2012
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Die Zivilgesellschaft macht mobil für ein gesünderes Europa! : Beispiele für vorbildliche Konzepte im Kampf gegen Übergewichtigkeit, vorgestellt vom EWSA
Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2005
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Health and safety at work in Greece
Kretsos, Lefteris - 2007
The findings of a 2005 study by the Labour Institute (INE) of the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) and the Confederation of Public Servants (ADEDY) reveal significant problems in Greece as regards the implementation of legislation on health and safety at work. Risk prevention...
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Econometric analysis of high dimensional VARs featuring a dominant unit
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2010
This paper extends the analysis of infinite dimensional vector autoregressive models (IVAR) proposed in Chudik and Pesaran (2010) to the case where one of the variables or the cross section units in the IVAR model is dominant or pervasive. This extension is not straightforward and involves...
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Weak and strong cross section dependence and estimation of large panels
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, Hashem; Tosetti, Elisa - 2009
This paper introduces the concepts of time-specific weak and strong cross section dependence. A double-indexed process is said to be cross sectionally weakly dependent at a given point in time, t, if its weighted average along the cross section dimension (N) converges to its expectation in...
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Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint : Where do we stand?
Bourguignon, François; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; … - 2008
poverty eradication made by the International Community in the UN Millennium Declaration. They include halving world poverty … and hunger by 2015, as well as reaching universal primary education, reducing under-5 and maternal mortality by two thirds … access, lessen the debt burden, channel financial resources and provide development assistance to the developing world, which …
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Public finances and long-term growth in Europe
De Ávila, Diego Romero; Strauch, Rolf - 2003
In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate of around 3 percent as a realistic prospect for the coming yearsu0094 and assigns public finances an important role in the process of achieving this goal. This paper addresses...
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Unemployment, hysteresis and transition
León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter - 2003
We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...
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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty
Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004
We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...
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