In recent years, the European Union is stressing the importance of monitoring and evaluating its policies, among which the common agricultural policy plays an important role. Policy evaluation, in order to provide reliable results on which to take important legislative decisions, should rely on...

A model grounded on a social accounting matrix for Italy, adapted for an analysis of agriculture, is used to assess the distributive impacts of changes to the single payment scheme after the Common Agricultural Policy Health Check. The main goal of the analysis is to bring out how and to what...

A large amount of policy support is spent to foster the development of rural areas in Europe. However, empirical evidence on the well-being differential between rural and urban areas in Europe is scant and incomplete. The present study develops a systematic literature review on this topic,...